90 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



by L. B. B. About April 15, 1902, Branford (G. V. Smith) ; 

 Nov. 18, 1905, Nov. 20, 1906, Portland (J. H. S.) ; Nov. 19, 

 1905, Stamford (Porter) ; Nov., 1905, New Haven (L. C. S. 

 and L. B. B.) ; Dec. 23, 1905, Danbury (J. C. A. M.) ; Nov. 22, 

 1910, New Haven (Minor). 



Surnia ulula caparoch (Miiller). Hawk Owl. 



The following are the only records for this state: Nov., 1869, 

 New Haven, bird secured by Dr. F. W. Hall (recorded by Mer- 

 riam 1 as the first Connecticut specimen) ; winter, 1879, near 

 Stamford, one seen at a distance of twenty feet in flight and 

 plainly identified (Hoyt). 



Order COCCYGES. Cuckoos, etc. 



Suborder CUCULI. Cuckoos, etc. 



Family CUCULID^E. Cuckoos, Anis, etc. 



Subfamily COCCYZIN;E. American Cuckoos. 



Coccyzus americanus americanus (Linnaeus). Yellow- 

 billed Cuckoo. 



A tolerably common summer resident from the middle of 

 May to the middle of September. 



Earliest record. New Haven, May 10, 1894, May 8, 1894 

 (A. H. V.) ; Portland, May 7, 1895. 



Latest record. New Haven, Oct. 16, 1900; Portland, Oct. 

 17, 1894. 



Nest. Usually in a bush or slender tree in a thicket; height 

 from ground, 5 to 10 feet (one 40 feet) ; composed of sticks and 

 twigs, and just large enough to hold the eggs. 



Eggs. 3-5; usually early in June. 



Nesting dates. Earliest record. May 24, 1898, four eggs 

 (J. H. H.). Latest record. Aug. 26, 1889, two eggs (W. L C) 2 



Unusual records. June 7, 1894, a nest containing two eggs 

 of this species and two of the Black-billed Cuckoo, with the 

 female Yellow-billed sitting, was found by L. B. B. ; about 1877, 

 a single egg found in a Robin's nest along with eggs of the latter 



1 Merriam, Birds of Conn., p. 73. 

 *Oologist, vi, 12, p. 231. 



