BIRDS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 



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The Yellow-billed Cuckoo {Coccyzits Anicricanus, Linnaeus) 

 is a very rare abnormal autumn migrant to the British 

 Islands. It inhabits America, from (Canada south to 

 Brazil, and in winter migrates from the northern portions. 

 The general colouration of the upper [larts is huffish-brown, 

 glossed with greenish ; two central tail-feathers, buffish- 

 hrown ; remainder, nearly black, tipped broadly with white ; 

 quills, tinged with pale yellowish-chestnut; under parts. 



