28 BIRDS OF KANSAS. 



ORDER PSITTACI. PARROTS, MACAWS, 

 PAROQUETS, ETC. 



FAMILY PSITTACIDJE. 



GENUS CONTJBUS KUHL. 



B. 63. R. 392. C. 460. G. 180. U. 382. 



147. Conurus carolinensis (LINN.). Carolina Paroquet. Formerly a common 

 resident in eastern and southern Kansas; but as the settlements increased along 

 the streams, rapidly diminished, and I think have not been met with in the 

 State for several years. In the spring of 1858 a small flock reared their young 

 in a large hollow limb of a giant sycamore tree, on the banks of the Neosho 

 river, near Neosho Falls. I have never been able to procure their eggs; are 

 said to be two or three; greenish white. 



ORDER COCCYGES. CUCKOOS, ETC. 



SUBORDER CUCULI. CUCKOOS, ETC. 

 FAMILY CUCULID^3. CUCKOOS, ANIS, ETC. 



SUBFAMILY COCCYGINy^. AMEKICAN CUCKOOS. 



GENUS GKEOCOCCYX WAGLEE. 



B. 68. R. 385. C. 427. G. . U. 385. 



148. Greococcyx californianus (LESS.). Road-runner. An occasional visitant 

 in western Kansas. Mr. Charles Dyer, Division Superintendent of the Atchison, 

 Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad at Las Vegas, New Mexico, writes me that in 

 September, 1884, he saw two of the birds near the railroad, and about fifteen 

 miles east of the west line of the State, and that he has seen them quite often 

 in Colorado, near the State line. The birds are known to breed as far east as 

 Las Animas, and I feel confident that they occasionally breed in the south- 

 western corner of the State, a natural habitat for the birds; but unsettled and 

 little known, especially as to its bird-life. 



GENUS COCCYZUS VIEILLOT. 



B. 69. R. 387. C. 429. G. 178. U. 387. 



149. Coccyzus americanus (LINN.). Yellow-billed Cuckoo. Summer resident; 

 common. Arrive the first of May. Begin laying the last of May. Nest a 



