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which I have sent him are referable to this subspecies. Common 

 resident at Chilliwack, Fraser valley ; common in winter at Lake 

 .Okanagan, B.C. {Brooks.) A number of specimens taken at 

 Chilliwack, B.C., in the autumn of igoi ; one specimen taken 

 near Victoria, V.I., April, 1887. {Spreadborough.) Numerous west 

 of the Coast Range, B.C. {Rkoads.) 



• MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



Five ; our specimens have been identified by Mr. Frank Chap- 

 man of the Museum of Natural History, New York. Two were 

 taken at Hastings, Burrard Inlet, B.C., in April, 1889 > three 

 others at Chilliwack, B.C., in October, 1901, by W. Spread- 

 borough. 



Order COCCYGES. Cuckoos and Kingfishers. 



Family XXXH. OUCULIDiE. Cuckoos. 

 XLH. COCCYZUS Vieillot. 1816. 

 38'7. Yellow-billed Cuckoo. 



Coccyzus americanus (Linn.) Bonap. 1824. 



Very rare in Nova Scotia, one taken near Halifax. {Downs.) 

 A rare summer resident in New Brunswick. {Chamberlain.) 

 Accidental visitant ; rare. A few examples of this species have 

 been shot on the island of Montreal. I am not aware of any 

 occurring of late years. {Wintle.) A rare summer resident in 

 Quebec. {Dionne.) 



A summer resident at Ottawa, Ont. A pair nested in Lt. Col. 

 White's garden in the city in 1890. {Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. V.) 

 This species is rather scarce and not generally distributed in 

 Ontario, and is believed to be more southern in its habit than the 

 black-billed cuckoo. .{Mcllwraith) Rather common summer 

 resident at Toronto, Ont., where it breeds : I have met with it 

 nesting at Rosseau, and I believe it occurs at Emsdale in the 

 Parry Sound and Muskoka districts. (/. H. Fleming.) Formerly 

 much more common than at present ; it is not usual to find more 

 than a single pair of birds in a suitable small piece of woods. 

 Their habit of having eggs and young in the same nest is well 

 known. {W. E. Saunders?) 



