BIRDS — CUCULIDAE — COCCYOUS ER-VTHROPHTHALMUS. 



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portions of the quills. The bill is considerably stouter than in 0. erythrophthahmis. There 



is no diiFerence between the sexes, except that of size. It goes as far north in summer as 



Labrador, according to Mr. Audubon, and stragglers have been occasionally taken in Europe. 



Although Townsend says it occurs west of the Rocky mountains, it has not been collected by 



any of the recent expeditions. 



List of specimens. 



Locality. 



Carlisle, Pa 



do 



do 



Tortugas, Pla 



RepubUeati, K. T... 



Clear creek, K. T 



Elk Horn river 



Fifty miles above mouth 



of Platte river 



Loup Fork, on Platte riv. 

 Fifty miles above mouth 



of Platte river 



Loup Fork, Platte valley , 



Independence, Missouri, 



do 



do 



When col- 

 lected. 



May 17,1844 

 July 27, 1844 

 July 3, 1844 

 April 26, 1857 

 June 30, 1856 

 July 1,18.t6 



July 3, 1856 



July 2, 1856 

 July 8, 1856 



June 3, 1857 

 May 29, 1857 

 May 27, 1857 



Whence obtained. 



Orig. 

 No. 



S. P. Baird , 



do 



do 



Collected by- 



G. Wurdemann 



Lieut. Bryan, U.S.A.. 



, do 



Lieut. G. K. Warren. 



.do., 

 .do.. 



.do., 

 .do.. 



.do.. 



"Wm. P. Magraw . 



do 



do 



82 

 41 

 18 



W. S. Wood. 

 Dr. Hayden.. 



.do., 

 .do.. 



.do., 

 .do.. 



do 



Dr. Cooper . 



do 



do 



Length. 



11. i5 

 12.00 

 11.17 



12.00 

 11.50 

 12.00 



11.00 

 12.00 



11.09 

 12.25 

 12.00 

 11.25 



10.75 

 11.50 



Stretch 

 of wings 



16.50 

 17.25 

 16.00 



16.50 

 16.50 

 16.50 



15.50 

 16.50 



17.25 

 19.50 

 16.50 

 16.25 

 14.75 

 16.75 



Wing. 



5.67 

 5.83 

 5.50 



8.25 



6.50 



5.50 

 5.75 



5.75 

 5.75 

 6.50 

 6 00 

 5.75 

 5.75 



Iris brown. 



Iris brown. .. 



COCCYGUS ERYTHKOPHTHALMUS, Bon. 



Black-billed Cuckoo. 



Cuculus erythrophthalmua, Wilson, Am. Orn. IV, 1811, 16 ; pi. x.tviii. 



Coccyzus erythrophthalmus, Bon. Obs. Wils. 1825, 48. — 1b. Consp. 1850, IV. — Aud. Orn. Biog. I. 1832, 170: 



V. 523, pi. 32.— Ib. Birds America, IV, 1842, 300 ; pi. 276. 

 Erythrophrys erythrophthalmus ^ Bon. List, 1838. 

 Coccyzus dominicus (Lath.) Nutt. Man. I, 1832, 556, (not of Latham, which belongs rather to C. americanus, on 



account of the red qnills and white edge of outer tail feather.) 



Sp. Ch. — Bill entirely black. Upper parts generally of a metallic greenish olive, ashy towards the base of the bill • 

 beneath pure white, with a brownish yellow tinge on the throat. Inner webs of the quills tinged with cinnamon. Under 

 surface of all the tail feathers hoary ash gray. All, except the central on either side, suffused with darker to the short bluish- 

 white, and not well defined tip. A naked, red skin round the eye. Length about 12 inches ; wing, 5 ; tail, 6.50. 



Hab. — United States to the Missouri plains. 



This species differs from the 0. americanus in the black bill, and the absence of black on the tail 

 feathers, the white tips of which are much shorter and less abruptly defined. One specimen 

 (5253) from the Upper Missouri has a much stronger tinge of yellowish cinnamon on the inner 

 webs of the quills than the others. The sexes are quite similar. 



List of specimens. 



