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YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO. 



AMERICAN YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO. VJKGLNIAN CUCKOO. 

 CAROLINA CUCKOO. COW-BIRD. RAIN-CROW. 



PLATE LVI. 



Cuculus Americanus, 



Couyrus Americanus, LINN^US. JENYNS. 



Cuculus cinerosus, TEMMINCK. 



" Carolinensis, WILSON. 



Erythrophrys Americanus, SWAINSON. 



THE nest is commenced about the end of the first week in May. 

 This species of Cuckoo does build a nest for itself, though of rude 

 construction, and nearly flat. It is placed on the branch of a tree, 

 and is made of small sticks and twigs, intermixed with weeds and 

 blossoms; Meyer says that it is made of roots and wool. 



The eggs, three, four, or five, generally four in number, are of a 

 uniform greenish blue colour, and of a duly proportionate size. 



This species is said by Audubon occasionally to lay its eggs in the 

 nest of another bird. 



I am indebted to J. R. Wise, Esq., of Lincoln College, Oxford, for 

 the loan of the egg from which the figure is taken. 



