CAROLINA CUCKOO, ^ 265 



IX. CUCKOO. Gen. Birds, XIX. 



Cuckoo of Carolina, Catefiy,i. g. — Laiu/a?:, i/^.^. 155. Carolina, 



Le Coucou dela Caroline, Brijfon, iv. liz. 



Cuculus Americanusj Lin. Syji. 170. — Latham, i. 537. — Lev, Mus.^Bl. Mus. 



CWith the upper mandible of the bill black, the lower yel- 

 • low : head, and whole upper part of the body, and coverts of 

 the wings, cinereous ; under fide entirely white : primaries brown 

 on their exterior, orange on their interior fides : tail long j two 

 middle feathers entirely cinereous, the others tipt with white : legs 

 dufky. Length twelve inches. 



Inhabits North America. Arrives in New Tork in May. Makes its Place.. 



neft in June, ufually in apple-trees ; and lays four eggs, of a bluifh 

 white color. The neft is made of fmall flicks and roots, and refem- 

 bles greatly that of the Englijh Jay , but is fmaller. It retires from 

 North America in autumn. 



This bird, as well as all the foreign Cuckoos, have only the gene- 

 rical charafter of the well-known European fpecies. They differ in 

 their oeconomy, nor have the opprobrious notes of that bird. 



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