32 LIFE HISTORIES OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS, 



io. Cuculus canorus telephonus (Heine). 



SIBERIAN CUCKOO. 



Cuculus telephonus Heine, Journal fiir Oriiithologie, 1863, 352. 



Cuculus canorus telephonus Stejneger, Bulletin 29, U. S. National Museum, 1885, p. 224. 

 (B — , R — , C — , U [388.1.]) 



Geographical range : Eastern Asia, casually to the Pribilof Islands, Alaska. 



The Siberian Cuckoo claims a place in our fauna on the strength of a single 

 specimen having been taken by Mr. William Palmer at Northeast Point, St. 

 Paul's Island, Alaska, on July 4, 1890, which is now in the United States 

 National Museum collection. Mr. Palmer states "when collected it was busily 

 engaged capturing some large flies which are abundant on these islands, and 

 with which its stomach was literally packed. It had been seen by the natives in 

 the same place for more than two weeks, and was probably the same individual 

 seen by myself on June 13, when becalmed in a fog off the eastern side of the 

 same island, on which occasion it circled overhead like a gull for some time, 

 while calmly inspecting- the boat, and then moved off northward." 1 



As far as I can learn, nothing definite has as yet been ascertained regarding 

 its nesting habits and eggs. They undoubtedly correspond closely to those of 

 its well-known western relative, the common European Cuckoo, Cuculus canorus, 

 and Dr. Stejneger tells me that in its general habits and call notes he could not 

 detect the slightest difference from those of the latter. At his suggestion, I have 

 substituted the name of "Siberian" for " Kamschatkan " Cuckoo, which is more 

 applicable to the bird described by him as Cuculus peninsula, from Kamschatka. 



Family TROGONID^. Trogons. 



ii. Trogon ambiguus Gould. 



coppery-tailed trogon. 



Trogon ambiguus Gould, Proceedings Zoological Society, 1835, 30. 

 (B 65, 284, R 384, C 422, TJ 389.) 



Geographical range: Southern Mexico from Oaxaca and Guerrero, north to the 

 valley of the lower Rio Grande, in Texas, and the mountains of southwestern New Mexico, 

 and southern Arizona. 



The Coppery-tailed Trogon, the only representative of this magnificently 

 plumaged family in the United States, must be considered as a rather rare 

 summer resident within our borders, and very little is yet known about its 

 general habits. There is no longer any doubt, however, that it breeds in some 

 of the mountain ranges of southern Arizona, and probably also in the San Luis 

 Mountains, in the extreme southwestern comer of New Mexico. First Lieut. 



1 The Auk, Vol. XI, 1894, p. 325. 



