316 cuckow. 



Inhabits Mexico ; the cry said to be like human laughter, on 

 which account the bird is dreaded by the Indians, as inauspicious, 

 and foreboding some evil or mischief. 



74 —CAROLINA CUCKOW. 



Cuculus Americanus, Ind. Orn. i. 219. Lin. i. 170. Gm. Lin. i. 414. 



Carolinensis, Bris. iv. 112. Id. 8vo, ii. 73. Klein. 30. 2. Gen. Zool.ix. 



p. 93. pi. 19. 

 Vieillard a Ailes rousses, Buf. vi. 400. PL enl. 816. 

 Yellow-bellied Cuckow, Amer. Orn. iv. pi. 28. f. 1. 

 Carolina Cuckow, Gen. St/n.'u. 537. Id. Sup. ii. 135.5. Cates. Car.i. pi. 9. Arct. 



Zool. ii. No. 155. Bartr. Trav. 179. 287. 



LENGTH thirteen inches, breadth sixteen. Bill fourteen lines, 

 the upper mandible black, base of it, and the whole of the under, 

 yellow ; plumage, on the upper parts of the body, cinereous olive, 

 the under white ; quills pale rufous on the inner webs, for the greater 

 part of their length ; tail cuneiform, six inches long, the two middle 

 feathers like the back, the others black, tipped with white; the 

 outer one three inches and a quarter long, and has the outer web 

 white the whole of its length ; legs grey brown. 



Inhabits Carolina, in the summer time. Mr. Abbot informs me, 

 that they are also common about Burke Country, in Georgia, and are 

 often twelve inches long, and seventeen broad ; they make a nest the 

 latter end of April, of small twigs, and of a loose texture, intermixed 

 with weeds and maple blossoms, and sometimes lined with moss and 

 dead hiccory blossoms, on the fork of a small oak, sometimes on the 

 crab or cedar ; the eggs five in number, blue green, but not very 

 deep ; it feeds the young with caterpillars, as many other birds do ; 

 besides which, it is accused of sucking the eggs of small birds ; will 

 occasionally eat seeds. 



