84 CUCULIDJE. 



ed. 3, ii. p. 194; Newton, ii. p. 387; Gould, iii. pis. 67, 

 68; Harting, p. 34; Dresser, v. p. 199. 

 The Common Cuckoo, Yarr. ed. 1, ii. p. 179. 



Canorus = melodious, from cdno = I sing. 



A generally distributed summer visitant throughout Great 

 Britain and the whole of the Palsearctic Region, ranging in 

 winter down into South Africa and Southern India. 



Genus COCCYSTES, Gloger, Handb, i. p. 449 (1834). 



Coccystes = KOKKVCTT^S, one who cries " Cuckoo" 



Coccystes glandarius. GREAT SPOTTED CUCKOO. 

 Cuculus glandarius, Linnaeus, S. N. i. p. 169 (1766). 



Cuculus glandarius, Naum. v. p. 237; Yarr. ed. 2, ii. p. 200 



id. ed. 3, ii. p. 205 ; Harting, p. 123. 

 Oxylophus glandarius, Gray, p. 118; Gould, iii. pi. 69. 

 Coccystes glandarius, Dresser, v. p. 219. 



Glandarius = of or belonging to acorns, glandes ; probably from its crest re- 

 sembling that of the Jay (Garrulus glandarius}. 



This species, which inhabits Southern and South-western 

 Europe and North Africa, has once occurred in Ireland. &n$ W 

 ^ ;Y2nM**v^~ , (Ly^f, /S/O (J/frn tire* 



> Genus COCCYZUS, Vieillot, Anal. p. 28 (1816). 



Coccyzus, said to be a misprint for Coccygus (Boie, Isis, 1826), as if the 

 genitive of KOKKV%, KOKKV^OS. But it is probably a false Latinizing of KOKKU%WV 

 \ Ifjf* = crying Cuckoo." 



Coccyzus americanus. YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO. 

 Cuculus americanus, Linnaeus, S. N. i. p. 170 (1766). 



Coccyzus americanus, Macg. iii. p. 137; Gray, p. 117; Yarr. 



ed. 2, ii. p. 204; id. ed. 3, ii. p. 209; Gould, Introd. 



p. xcv ; Dresser, v. p. 227. 

 Cuculus americanus, Harting, p. 124. 

 The Yellow-billed American Cuckoo, Yarr. ed. 1, ii. p. 189. 



Americanus = of America. 



