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ilar situations. I shoot them with light charges 
of dust-shot, fired from my collecting gun. 
Alcidinid^e : Kingfishers. — These noisy birds 
are found plentifully in the vicinity of streams. 
They are shy and require a heavy charge of number 
eight to bring them down. 
CucuLiDiE: Cuckoos. — The roadrunnerof Cali- 
fornia, Texas, and intermediate locality, occurs in 
the sage bush, but our species of cuckoos, even 
the mangrove, inhabit thickets from which they 
occasionally emerge. They are usually betrayed 
by their notes. They are easily killed, their skin 
being very thin and tender. 
Picid^e: Woodpeckers. — Occur, as a rule, in 
t*he woodlands, but the smaller species and the 
golden-winged inhabit orchards. They are all 
tough birds to kill. They are a generally dis- 
tributed family, but some species are confined to 
certain localities, for example, the great ivory- 
billed is not found outside of Florida, and even 
there, is confined to a limited area, and very rare. 
Strickland’s woodpecker has as yet only been found 
in the United States in a single range of moun- 
tains in Arizona. 
PsiTTACiDyE : Parrots.—— Our Carolina paroquet 
is now exceedingly rare out of Florida, and then 
