. American ornithology, or, The natural history of the birds of the United States [microform]. Wilson, Alexander, 1766-1813; Wilson, Alexander, 1766-1813; Birds; Oiseaux. iA. i^-: Genus XX. CUCULUS. CUCKOO * SrEciES I. CUCULUS CAIiOLINESSIS. YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO. [flat* XXVIII. Fig. 1.] Cuntlus Americannn, Linn. Sysl. cd. 10, p. 111.—Catisb. i., 9.—Lath, i., 537.— Le Coucou de In Caroline, Brink, iv., \\'2.—Arct. 7,ol. •-'(>.'), No. IS,"). A STRANOKR who the Fiiitod Stiitcw for th<' imrposo of oxiimiii- iiif their iiiitiirnl productions, ami passes throuf^li our woods in tho
. American ornithology, or, The natural history of the birds of the United States [microform]. Wilson, Alexander, 1766-1813; Wilson, Alexander, 1766-1813; Birds; Oiseaux. iA. i^-: Genus XX. CUCULUS. CUCKOO * SrEciES I. CUCULUS CAIiOLINESSIS. YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO. [flat* XXVIII. Fig. 1.] Cuntlus Americannn, Linn. Sysl. cd. 10, p. 111.—Catisb. i., 9.—Lath, i., 537.— Le Coucou de In Caroline, Brink, iv., \\'2.—Arct. 7,ol. •-'(>.'), No. IS,"). A STRANOKR who the Fiiitod Stiitcw for th<' imrposo of oxiimiii- iiif their iiiitiirnl productions, ami passes throuf^li our woods in tho mouth of May or Jane, will sonu'tiuuvs hear as he traverses the horders (.f deep, retired, high timbered hollows, an uncouth guttural Hound or note, re- sembling the syllables Avmv, kowe, koice kowe kowr ! beginning slowly, but ending so rai)idly, that the notes seem to run into each other, and vice versa ; he will hear this frequently without being able to discover tho bird or animal from which it proceeds, «fl it is both shy and solitary, seeking always the thickest foliage for concealment. This is the Yel- low-billed Cuckoo, the subject of the present account. From the imita- tive sound of its note, it is known in many parts by tho name of the Cow-bird; it is also callc<l in Virginia the Rain-Orow, being observed to bo most clamorous imme<liately before rain. This .species arrives in Pennsylvania, from the south, al)out the twenty- second of April, and spreads over the country as far at leiust as Lake Ontario ; is numerous in the Chickasaw and Choctaw nations ; and also bree<ls in the upper parts of Georgia : pn-feri-ing in all these places the bonlers of .solitary swamps and aj)ple-orehards. It leaves us, on its return southward, about tiie middle of Sej)teml)er. The singuhir, I will not say unnatural, conduct of the European Cuckoo, (CiiculuH I'ttnorux), which never constructs a nest for itself, but drops its eggs in those of other birds, and abandons
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