WILSON'S 

 AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. 



YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO. (Cuculus Carolinensis) 



PLATE XXVIII.— Fig. 1. 



Cuculus Americanus, Linn. Syst. 170. — Catesb. i. 9. — Lath. i. 537. — Le Cotfcou 

 de la Caroline, Briss. iv. 112. — Arct. Zool. 265, No. 155. — Peak's Museum, 

 No. 1778. 



COCCYZUS AMERICANUS. —Bonaparte.* 



Coccyzus Americanus, Bonap. Synop. p. 42. — The Yellow-billed Cuckoo, And. pi. 2. 

 Orn. Biog. i. p. 18. 



A steanger who visits the United States, for the purpose of 

 examining their natural productions, and passes through our 

 woods in the month of May or June, will sometimes hear, as 



* Bonaparte has preferred restoring the specific name of Linnaeus to 

 that given hy Catesby and Brisson, and by this it should stand in our 

 systems. 



This form will represent in America the true cuckoos, which other- 

 wise range over the world ; it was first separated by Vaillant under the 

 French name Conec, and the same division was adopted by Vieillot, 

 under the name of Coccyzus, which is now retained. They differ from 

 the cuckoos chiefly in habit, — building a regular nest, and rearing their 

 young. North America possesses only two species, our present and the 

 following, which are both migratory. Some beautiful species are met 

 with in different parts of the southern continent. 



Mr Audubon has added little to their history farther than confirming 

 the accounts of "Wilson. In their migrations northward, they move 

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