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ZOOLOGY BIRDS. 



COCCYGUS AMERICANOS (Liun.). 

 Yellow-billed Cuckoo. 



Cuculus amcricanus, LINN., Syst. Nat., i, 1766, 170, 10. 



Coccygus americanus, WooDH., Sitgreave's Exp. Zufii & Col. Riv., 1854, 92. BD., 

 Birds N. A., 1858, 76. HENRY, Proe. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila,, 1859, 

 105 (New Mexico). HATD., Trans. Am. Phil. Soc., xii, 1862, 154. 

 COOPER, Birds Cal., i, 1870, 371. ALLEN, Bui. Mus. Corup. Zoo!., 1872, ISO 

 (Eastern Kansas). UENSHAW, An. Lye. Nat. Hist., N. Y., xi, 1874, 8. Id., 

 An. List Birds Utah, 1872, Wheelers Exped., 1874, 47. COUES, Key N. A. 

 Birds, 1872, 190, f. 126. SNOW, Birds Kan., 1872, 5. ALLEN, Proc. Bost. 

 Soc. Nat. Hist., June, 1874, 17, 33. BD., BREW., & RIDG., N. A. Birds, ii, 

 1874, 447. 



Coccyzits americanus, COUES, Birds Northwest, 1874, 275. 



This Cuckoo has been reported from so many portions of the United 

 States that it is now believed to inhabit every portion of our country ; its 

 scarcity or abundance being dependent upon the nature of the region where 

 it may occur, according as this is suitable or unsuitable to its habits. In 

 Utah, we found it only at Provo ; though its disposition is so shy and retiring 

 that negative evidence is in this case worth very little, and it may be by 

 no means rare in certain sections where it has wholly escaped the notice of 

 the few observers. In Southeastern Arizona, it appeared to be rather numer- 

 ous late in the summer, coming under our observation several times. 



FAM. PICIDAE: WOODPECKERS. 



PICUS VILLOSUS (Linn.), var. HARRISI, Aud. 

 Harris's Woodpecker; Western Hairy Woodpecker. 



Picus harrisii, AUD., Orn. Biog., v, 1839, 191, pi. ccccxvii. BD., Ives' Col. Exped., 

 1857-58, pt. iv, 5. Id, Birds N. A., 1858, 87. NEWB., P. R. R. Rep., vi, 1857, 

 89. XANTUS, Proc, Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 190 (Fort Tejon, Cal.). 

 HEERM., P. R. R. Rep., x, pt. iv, 1859, 57. KENNERLY, P. R. R. Rep., 

 Whipple's Route, x, 1859, 21. BD., U. S. & Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 

 1859, Birds, 5. COOP. & SUCKL., P. R. R. Rep., xii, pt. ii, 18(iO, 159. 

 COUES, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1806, 52. COOPER, Birds Cal., i, 1S70, 

 375.^-STEV., U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 1870, 463. AIKEN, Proc. Bo.st. Soc. 

 Nat, Hist., 1872, 206. 



