. Birds of Michigan . ke in Hillsdalecounty in 1860; remarkable but hardly possible (Dr. M. Gibbs); Dr. Robert Ridgwayinforms me that the National Museum collection has a specimen labeled from Michi-gan. Prof. Ludwig Kumlein writes me that he has shot one specimen in Jeffersoncounty, Wisconsin, and that his father, the late Thos. Kumlein, saw them in Wisconsinin the forties; if it occur in Michigan it comes as a very rare straggler from the south;usually seen in flocks; for a very interesting article on this bird see Auk. Vol, IX, Jan.,1892, pp. 49-56, whereProf. A. W. Butler gives a very comp
. Birds of Michigan . ke in Hillsdalecounty in 1860; remarkable but hardly possible (Dr. M. Gibbs); Dr. Robert Ridgwayinforms me that the National Museum collection has a specimen labeled from Michi-gan. Prof. Ludwig Kumlein writes me that he has shot one specimen in Jeffersoncounty, Wisconsin, and that his father, the late Thos. Kumlein, saw them in Wisconsinin the forties; if it occur in Michigan it comes as a very rare straggler from the south;usually seen in flocks; for a very interesting article on this bird see Auk. Vol, IX, Jan.,1892, pp. 49-56, whereProf. A. W. Butler gives a very complete monograph on the dif-tribution of this species. It is stated (p. 50) that both Audubon and Wilson reportedthis bird from Michigan, which is certainly conclusive. Order COCCYGES. Cuckoos. These are climbing birds with curved, not hooked beaks. Suborder CUOULI. Cuckoos. Family CUCULID^E. Cuckoos. Feed on insects, even eating hairy caterpillars; very beneficial. Subfamily COCCYGINJE. Cuckoos. Gekus COCCYZUS Yellow-billed Cuckoo, reduced. ZOOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT. 73 173-387-(429). Coccyzus americanus {Linn.). * Yellow-billed Cuckoo. Formerly rather rare at this place, but now quite common; less common in Mon-i-oe County than the next species (Jerome Trombley); common in Kalamazoo Co.(Dr. M. Gibbs); S. E. White reports this species very rare in Kent County; easily mis-taken for the Black-billed Cuckoo; Dr. Atkins reported finding eggs of this-species inthe nest of the Black-billed Cuckoo; the time of incubation of eggs, in the same set,very variable (S. M. Falconer); breeds; I find both this and the next species nestingcommonly about the college grounds; nests in trees; eggs two to six, usually four; likethose of the next species only larger and a little lighter colored. We see that thesebirds are some like the European Cuckoo in the habit of using each others nests,which may account for the varying period of incubation. 174-388-(428), Coccyzns«erytlirophtlialmu8 (Wils
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