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KEY TO TIIK BIRDS OF EASTERN NORTH AMERICA. 



FAMILY CUCULID^E. 



Cuckoos. 



Feet, zygodactyle (two toes in front, two behind). 



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Under mandible, yellow ; greater portion of primaries, rufous brown, tipped 

 with grayish oUnc: uiul('ri)arts, (hill white; outer tail feathers, black, tipped 

 with white. 



Yeliow^billed Cuckoo. 



Coccyzns nmericanus. 

 See No. 320. 



Under mandible, yellow, tip, l)lack; primaries, grayish olive, not rufous 



browu ; belly, tinged with pale rufous. 



riangrove Cuckoo. 



Coccyzus minor, and racrs. 

 See No. 318. 



Bill, black ; no rufous browu ou lirimaries; underparts, dull white; outer tail, 

 like back iu color. 



BIack=billed Cuckoo. 



CoccyzKS eriithro^ihthalmns. 

 See No. 321. 



General plumage, black ; bill, black. West Indian species, recorded from Florida ; 

 accidental in the Uuited States. Bill very different from that of true Cuckoo, 

 being thin and " Parrot like." AnI. 



Crotophaga ani. 

 See No. 317. 



