. Key to North American birds. Containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary, inclusive of Greenland and lower California, with which are incorporated General ornithology: an outline of the structure and classification of birds; and Field ornithology, a manual of collecting, preparing, and preserving birds. Birds; Birds; 1887. CUCULID^—COCCYGIN^: AMERICAN CUCKOOS. 475 428. saddled on a branch or in a fork. Though not habitually parasitic, they often slip an egg in other birds' nests, o
. Key to North American birds. Containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary, inclusive of Greenland and lower California, with which are incorporated General ornithology: an outline of the structure and classification of birds; and Field ornithology, a manual of collecting, preparing, and preserving birds. Birds; Birds; 1887. CUCULID^—COCCYGIN^: AMERICAN CUCKOOS. 475 428. saddled on a branch or in a fork. Though not habitually parasitic, they often slip an egg in other birds' nests, or in each other's. Oviposition is tardy or irregular ; the nests usually (-on- tain eggs in different stages of development, or eggs and young together. They are well-known inliabitants of our streets and as \vell as of woodland, noted for their loud, jerlcy cries, which they are supposed to utter most frequently in falling weather, whence their popular name, " ; Migratory, insectivfirous, and frugivorous. Analysis of Species. Bill black and bluish. White below. Wings with little or no cinnamon Tail-foatbers not broadly white-ended. erijthrophthalmus 428 Bill black and yellow. Tail-featbers broadly wbite-etider]. White below. Wings extensively cinnamon , americanus 429 Tawny below. Ears dusky seniculus 430. Fig. 327. - Yellow-billed Cuckoo, ^ nat. size. (From Brehm.) C. erythrophthal'mus. (Gr. ipvdpos, emthros, reddish ; o(t,6a\fi6i, opUlmlmos, eye.) Black- billed Cuckoo. ^ 9 : Bill blackish except occasionally a trace of yellowish, usually bluish at base below. Above, satiny olive-gray. Below, pure white, sometimes with a faint tawny tinge on the fore-parts. Wings with little or no rufous. Lateral tail-feathers not contrasting with the central, their tips for a short distance blackish, then obscurely white ; no bold contrast of black with large white spaces. Bare ciroumocular space livid : edges of eyelids red. Length ; extent about 15.
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