290° GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
which I have sent him are referable to this subspecies. Common 
resident at Chilliwack, Fraser valley ; common in winter at Lake 
Okanagan, B.C. (Brooks.) A number of specimens taken at 
Chilliwack, B.C., in the autumn of Ig0I ; one specimen taken 
near Victoria, V.I., April, 1887. (Spreadborough.) Numerous west 
of the Coast Range, B.C. (/hoads.) 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
Five ; our specimens have been identified by Mr. Frank Chap- 
man of the Museum of Natural History, New York. Two were 
taken at Hastings, Burrard Inlet, B.C., in April, 1889; three 
others at Chilliwack, B.C., in October, 1901, by W. Spread- 
borough. 
ORDER COCCYGES. CUCKOOS AND KINGFISHERS. 
Famity XXXII. CUCULIDZE. Cuckoos. 
XLII. COCCYZUS VIEILLoT. 1816. 
387. Yellow-billed Cuckoo. 
Coccyzus americanus (LinN.) Bonap. 1824. 
Very rare in Nova Scotia, one taken near Halifax. (Downs.) 
A rare summer resident in New Brunswick. (Chamberlain.) 
Accidental visitant ; rare. A few examples of this species have 
been shot on the island of Montreal. I am not aware of any 
occurring of late years. (Wintle.) A rare summer resident in 
Quebec. (Dionne.) 
A summer resident at Ottawa, Ont. A pair nested in Lt. Col. 
White’s garden in the city in 1890. (Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. V.) 
This species is rather scarce and not generally distributed in 
Ontario, and is believed to be more southern in its habit than the 
black-billed cuckoo. (McIlwraith.) Rather common summer 
resident at Toronto, Ont., where it breeds: I have met with it 
nesting at Rosseau, and I believe it occurs at Emsdale in the 
Parry Sound and Muskoka districts. (/. H. Fleming.) Formerly 
much more common than at present; it is not usual to find more 
than a single pair of birds in a suitable small piece of woods. 
Their habit of having eggs and young in the same nest is well 
known. (IV. £. Saunders.) 
