558 ORNITHOLOGY. 



Family CUCULIDiE— Cuckoos. 



COCCYZUS AMERICANUS. 



Yflloiv-billetl Ciirkoo. 



Cuculm americoMus, LiNN., Syst. Nat., I, 17GG, 170. 



Coccysus americanus, Bonap., Ob.s. Wils. Orii., 1.S25, No. 47. — COUES, Key, 1872, 

 190, fi- 12G; Cbcck List, 1S73, No. 291 ; 13. N.vV., 1874, 275. 



(Joccygus americanus, Baird, B. N. Am., 1S5S, 7G; Gat. N. Am. B., 1859, No. 69. — 

 CdOPEE, Orn. Cal., I, 1870, 371.— B. B. & It., Hist. N. Am. B., II, 1874, 477, 

 pi. XL VIII, fig. 4 ("3'" err.).— He.nshaw, 1875, 386. 



The Yellow-billed Cuckoo was "so often seen or heard during our 

 sojourn in the West, that we cannot regard it as a particularly rare bird in 

 certain portions of that country- At Sacramento City its well-known notes 

 were lieard on more than one occasion in June, among the oak groves in 

 the outskirts of tl)e city, while across the Sierra Nevada several individuals 

 were seen in July in the wooded valley of the lower Truckee. 



Family TROCHILID-^— Humming-birds. 

 Calypte ann^. 



Anna's Iliiinmcr. 



Ornismija anna, Lesson, Oiseanx Mouclies, 1830, pi. cxxiv. 



Athis anna, Baird, B. N. Am., 1858, 137 ; Cat. N. Am. B., 1859, No. 105. 



Calypte annw, Gould, Introd. Trocbilidro, 1801, 88.— B. B. & R , Hist. N. Am. B., 



1871, 451, pi. XLVii, fifi- 7.— nF.NSHAW, 1875, 37.5. 

 i^iehisphortis anna, CoUES, Key, 1872, 185; Clieck List, 1873, No. 279. 

 Calypte anna. Cooper, Orn. Cal., I, 1870, 35S. 



This beautiful Hummer was found only at Sacramento City, where it 

 was rare, or at least far less common than the Trochilus alexandri. We did 

 not see enough of it to detect anything distinctive in its habits. 



List of specimens. 



10, nest and eggs (2); Sacramento City, California, Juno 0, 1807. Nest at extrem- 

 ity of a small dead twig, underneath lower branches of small oaU, in yrovc. 



