FAMILY IV. 
AMPHIBOLI, Illiger. 
GENUS \,— COCCYZVS, Vieill. 
36. COCCYZUS A3IERICANUSi BONAPARTE, 
CUCULUS CAROLINENSISf WILSON, —YELLOW-BILLED 
WILSON, PLATE XXVIII. FIG. I. — EDINBURGH COLLEGE 
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A STRANGER who Visits the United States for 
purpose of examining their natural productions! 
passes through our woods in the month of 
June, will sometimes hear, as he traverses the 
of deep, retired, high timbered hollows, an "noo ^ 
guttural sound, or note, resemhling the syllables 
howe, kowe howe Aoicc, beginning slowly, hut endiOf^; 
rapidly, that the notes seem to run into each o* |,t 
and vice versa : he will hear this freijnently, '*''* j, it 
being able to discover the bird or animal from 
proceeds, as it is both shy and solitary, seeking 
the thickest foliage for concealment. This 
yellow-billed cuckoo, the subject of the present if 
From the imitative sound of its note, it is kno*'^jii 
many parts by the name of the cow-iird; it 1)< 
called in Virginia, the rain crow, being observed t 
most clamorous immediately before rain. j,tlii 
This species arrives in Pennsylvania, from the ()ie 
about the twenty-second of April, and spreads oi'*^ 
country', as far at least as Lake Ontario ; is 
in the Chickiusaw and Chactaw nations; and also 
in the upper parts of Oeorgia; preferring, in all 
places, the borders of solitary swamps, and apple or*' 
It leaves us, on its return southward, about the 
of September. 
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