558 ornithology. 



Family CUCULIDJ^]— Cuckoos, 

 coccyzus ambeicanus. 



Ifc-llow-billod Cuckoo. 



Ctwulus amcrieanus, Linn., Syst. Nat., I, 17GG, 170. 



Coccyzus ainericanus, BoNAP., Ob.s. Wils. Oni., 1.S25, No. 47. — CouES, Key, 1872, 



190, fig. 126; Check List, 1873, No. 291 ; B. N.W., 1874, 275. 

 Coccygus ainericanus, Baird, B. N, Am., 185 >, 70 ; Cat. N. Am. B., 1859, No. 09. — 



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



pi. XLViii, fig. 4 ("3'- eiT.).— Henshaw, 1875, 380. 



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

 the outskirts of the 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^. 



Auna's Iluiiimer. 



Ornismya anna, Lesson, Oiseaiix Monches, 1830, pi. cxxiv. 



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



Calypte awm, Gould, lutrod. Trocbilidfe, 1801, 88.— B. B. & R , Hist. N. Am. B., 

 1874, 454, pi. XLVii, fig. 7.— Henshaw, 1875, 375. 



liielasphorus anna, CouES, Key, 1872, 185; Check List, 1873, No. 279. 



Calypte anna, Cooper, Oni. Cal., I, 1870, 358. 



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

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

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



List of specimens. 



10, nest and eggs (2); Sacramento City, California, June 9, 1807. Nest at extrem- 

 ity of a small dead twig, luiderueatb lower branches of small oak, in grove. 



