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YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO. 
AMERICAN YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO. VIRGINIAN 
CUCKOO. CAROLINA CUCKOO. COW-BIRD. RAIN-CROW. 
PLATE LVII.—FIG. I. 
Cuculus Americanus, . : 3 a LINNEUS. 
Couyrus Americanus, ‘ : f . Linnzvus. JENYNS. 
Cuculus cinerosus, ‘ : , : TEMMINCK. 
Cuculus Carolinensis, ‘ , ; . WItson. 
Eirythrophrys 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. 
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