CUCKOOS. 



311 



in tone. Flight, heavy and jay-like. Social 

 at all times, several females placing their 

 chalky-white eggs in one nest; probably 

 polygamous. 



Fig. 247 



Yellow-billed Cuckoo. 1-4. \ 



329. YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO. 



Smaller, 12; brown above, white below; 

 tail dark; outer feathers- broadly tipped with 

 white; wing, strongly tinged with cinna- 

 mon; under mandible, yellow; space about 

 eye dark, fig. 247. Breeds in eastern tem- 

 perate N. A., west to plains: winters in 



