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It is rarer in the Bruce peninsula where I have seen it but twice. 
It does not appear to lay more than four eggs in the largest set, 
while the black-billed sometimes has as many as six. (W. E. Saun- 
ders.) A summer resident around Toronto, Ont., but rather scarce. 
A pair nest every season a short distance from my house at Kew 
Beach. It is a late breeder, seldom having eggs before the middle 
of July. On July 20th, 1895, I found a nest containing two eggs at 
Kew Beach. The nest was built in a maple tree twelve feet from 
the ground. (W. Raine.) Nest taken at Ottawa, Ont., composed 
of twigs, leaves, rootlets and catkins, lined with some soft vegetable 
material. Eggs in sets of four to six of a pale greenish colour. 
(G. R. White.) 
387a. California Cuckoo. 
Coccyzus americanus occidentalis RipGw. 1887. 
While being transferred across the Fraser river at Mount Lehman 
we passed near an island where I heard the unmistakable notes of a 
cuckoo; I directed the boat to the spot and the bird was seen, but 
not taken. (Sireator.) In May, 1881, I saw one of these birds at 
Burrard inlet, and in June, 1882, the late Mr. J. C. Hughes found a 
pair breeding at Kamloops; in June, 1887, I saw a pair at Skinner 
swamp near the city of Victoria, and from their actions I concluded 
they were breeding in that locality; later in the same year one was 
shot on Mount Tolmie. (Fannin.) Tolerably common summer 
resident at Chilliwack, and becoming more abundant in the coast 
region every year, probably on account of the invasions of the forest 
tent caterpillar. (Brooks.) 
388. Black-billed Cuckoo. 
Coccyzus erythrophthalmus (WILs.) BONAP. 1824. 
Audubon, Vol. IV., p. 301, states that they saw a few individuals 
in clumps of low trees a few miles from the shore of the Gulf of St. 
Lawrence. (Packard.) One specimen obtained at Tignish, P.E.I. 
The only evidence I have of its occurrence on the island. (Dwvght.) 
One seen on Sable island, N.S., August 5th, 1904 and one September 
27th, 1907. (James Boutelier.) Not very common; a summer 
resident in Nova Scotia. (Downs; Tufts.) Fairly common at 
Wolfville, King’s county, N.S. from May to September. (H. F. 
