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from 400 to 700 meters altitude. Danforth recorded them at Monte 

 Christi June 22, Dajabon June 23 (specimen), Laguna del Salodillo 

 June 26, Santo Domingo City July 1, Vasquez August 6, and Bonao 

 August 7. Ciferri sent specimens to Moltoni taken at San Juan 

 July 5 and 6, 1929. 



In Haiti Abbott collected a female at Port-de-Paix June 13, 1917, 

 and four males and one female at Picmy, Gonave Island July 5 and 

 6 of that yea,r. All of these are adult birds. Beebe reports one in 

 a garden at Port-au-Prince without giving the date. Danforth 

 records six taken on Gonave July 15 to 19, 1927, one of which, in the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences, was taken at Anse a Galets July 15. 

 Danforth found them also at the sloughs near the mouth of the Arti- 

 bonite July 29. He reports that three birds taken on Gonave had 

 the stomachs filled with noctuid caterpillars, with an elaterid beetle 

 in one. From present somewhat meager evidence it appears that 

 the yellow-billed cuckoo nests in Hispaniola, while from Cherrie's 

 experience at Santo Domingo City where the species appeared sud- 

 denly in numbers at the opening of May it would seem that it may 

 be a migrant found mainly in summer. Known dates of its occurrence 

 at present range from May 2 to November 22. The bird is found in 

 dense shrubbery and trees where it moves slowly and leisurely oc- 

 casionally uttering a loud, slowly cadenced, rattling call. The 

 specimens taken at 700 meters near Tubano may mark the upward 

 limit of range in the interior hills. 



E. L. Ekman found the yellow-billed cuckoo on Navassa Island in 

 October, 1928. 



We have compared the series of six secured by Abbott with speci- 

 mens from eastern North America and find that they are apparently 

 identical in color. These specimens have the following range of 

 measurement (in millimeters) : 



Four males, wing 134.8-143.1 (138.1), tail 134.0-136.7 (135.7), 

 culmen from base 24.2-25.0 (24.6), tarsus 25.7-26.8 (26.2). 



Two females, wing 135.6-146.9 (141.2), tail 133.1-149.8 (141.4), 

 culmen from base 24.2-25.0 (24.6) , tarsus 25.7-26.8 (26.2). 



Though the average is slightly less than that for extensive series 

 from eastern North America many northern birds are no larger 

 than those from Haiti so that the apparent difference would prob- 

 ably disappear with more specimens. We consider the Hispaniolan 

 birds to be C. a. americanus. 



The yellow-billed cuckoo, while from 275 to 308 mm. long, is 

 very slender. It is white below and grayish brown above, with a 

 chestnut wash on the primaries, and a black tail with the outer 

 feathers broadly tipped with white. 



