110 BIRDS OF THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA PART 2 



This cuckoo nests in North America east of the Rocky Mountains 

 from southern Canada south to southeastern Wyoming, eastern 

 Kansas and eastern South Carolina. It moves in fall to a winter 

 home in northwestern South America from Colombia to Ecuador 

 and Peru, casually east to Venezuela. Little is known in detail of 

 its route of travel, which includes passage through both Central 

 America and the West Indies. 



Monniche secured a male at Lerida in the mountains above Bo- 



Figure 13. — Black-billed cuckoo, cuclillo piquinegro, Coccyzus erythropthalmus. 



quete, Chiriqui, on October 16, 1938. T. A. Imhof has given me a 

 sight record of 1 near Chorrera, Panama, on October 12, 1942. 

 McLeannan forwarded 1 to Lawrence, taken when he was stationed 

 at Lion Hill in the present Canal Zone. Two others have come to 

 the U.S. National Museum from the Pacific side of the Canal Zone, 

 a female shot September 27, 1953, on Road K-6, below Arraijan on 

 the International Highway, and a male from near the Empire Range 

 secured October 3, 1955. Horace Loftin recorded 1 near the Forest 

 Preserve October 3, 1963. In our work in connection with the 

 Chemical Warfare Service on Isla San Jose in the Pearl Islands we 

 secured a female April 28, 1944. Another report is of a male col- 



