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ZOOLOGY— BIRDS. 



OOCCYGUS AMEKICANUS (Liiiu.). 

 Yellow-billed Cuckoo. 



Cticulus amcricanus, LiNN., Syst. Nat., i, 1700, 170, 10. 



t'ovviigm amvricanu)!, WoODH., Sitgrcave's E.xp. Zuiii & Col. Riv., 1854, J)2.— P.D., 

 Birds N. A., 1858, 70.— Hknky, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phihi., 185y, 

 105 (New Mexico). — Hayd., Trans. Am. Phil. Soc, xii, 1802, 154.— 

 CooPKK, Birds Cal., i, 1870, 371.— Allkn, Biil. Miis. Comp. Zocil., 1872, 180 

 (Eastern Kansas). — Uknsuaw, An. Lye. Nat. Hist., N. Y., xi, 1874, 8. — Id., 

 An. List Birds Utah, 1872, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 47.— COUES, Key N. A. 

 Birds, 1872, 100, f. 120.— Snow, Birds Kan., 1872, 5.— Allen, Proc. Bost. 

 Soc. Nat. Hist., Jnne, 1874, 17, 33. — Bu., Bkew., & Ridg., N. A. Birds, ii, 

 1874, 447. 



Coccyzm amerkatius, CouES, Birds Northwest, 1874, 275. 



Tliis Cuckoo has been reported from so many portions of tlie United 

 States that it is now believed to inhabit every portion of onr country ; its 

 scarcity or abundance being dependent upon the nature of the region where 

 it may occur, according as this is suitable or unsuitable to its habits. In 

 Utah, we found it only at Prove ; though its disposition is so shy and retiring 

 that negative evidence is in this case wortli very little, and it may be by 

 no means rare in certain sections where it has wholly escaped the notice of 

 the few observers. In Southeastern Arizona, it appeared to be rather niuner- 

 ous late in the summer, coming under our observation several times. 



Fam. PICIDAE: Woodpeckers. 



PICUS VILLOSUS (Linn.), var. nARBISL -Vnd. 

 IlarriK's IVoodpecker; Western Hairj IVood pecker. 



ricun harrlsii, AVB., Orn. Biog., v, 1S;?9, 101, pi. ccccxvii.— Tin., Ives' Col. Exped., 

 1857-58, pt. iv, 5.— /(/., Birds N. A., 1858, 87.— Newb.. P. R. R. Rep., vi, 1857, 

 80.— Xantus, Proc, Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1850, 190 (Fort Tejon, Cal.).— 

 IIeekm., p. R. R. Rep., x, pt. iv, 1850, 57.— Kennekly, P. R. R. Rep., 

 WhipiHe's Route, x, 1859, 21.— Bd., U. S. & Mcx. Bound. Snrv., ii, pt. ii, 

 1859, Bird.s, 5.— Coop. & SucKL., P. R. R. Rep., xii, pt. ir, ISOO, l,"i!».— 

 Coues, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 18C0, 52.— Coopeu, Birds Cal., i, 1S70, 

 375.— Stev., U. S. Geol. Snrv. Terr., 1870, 403.- Aiken, Proc. Bost. Soc. 

 Nat. Hist., 1872, 206. 



