Il6 MEMOIRS OF THE NUTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB 



175 [388] Coccyzus erythrophthalmus (Wils.). 

 Black-billed Cuckoo. 

 Common summer resident. May 10 to September 25 (October 21). 

 Eggs: May 30 to July 4. 



On October 8, 1919, Mr. Ralph Hoffmann saw this species at Andover. 



In the spring and early summer the curious song of the Black-billed Cuckoo 

 may be heard not only by day, but occasionally in the dusk of the evening and at 

 night. It may be delivered on the wing as a flight song. The full song may be 

 described as a preliminary harsh clearing of the throat followed by from six to 

 twelve short coughs which in turn are succeeded by the more pleasing doublets 

 and triplets of cows. The Yellow-billed Cuckoo repeats his cotes or cozvks in 

 regular order without dividing them into sets and they sound as woodeny as if he 

 were striking a plank with a mallet. 



176 [390] Ceryle alcyon (Linn.). 



Belted Kingfisher. 



Common summer resident (winter). March 28 to October (December 11, 

 15, 29, January 31, February 16, 22). 



In August, 1917, a Kingfisher was detected at Ipswich by Mr. R. T. Crane's 

 gamekeeper pouncing on young Bob-whites hatched in captivity. He shot the 

 bird, a female, and, on opening its crop, found the legs and feathers of the young 

 Bob-whites.' 



^77 [393] Dryobates villosus villosus (Linn.). 



Hairy Woodpecker. 



Not uncommon permanent resident, more common autumn transient visitor. 



Eggs: May 30. 



Mr. Damsell's^ note-books " bring out very strongly the fact that on the coast 

 in the vicinity of Amesbury, at all events, the Hairy Woodpecker appears very 

 regularly during October and November in small numbers, but only rarely in the 

 winter and spring months." 



As an indication of the extent to which this bird breeds in certain parts of 

 the County I may instance the fact that in a two days' canoe trip on the Ipswich 



1 Towiisend, C. W. Auk, vol. 35, pp. 184, 185, 1918. 



2 Allen, G. M. Auk, vol. 30, p. 25, 1913. 



