CUCULINiE. COCCYZUS. 187 
Head rather small ; neck of moderate length ; body slender. 
Feet rather short ; tarsus compressed, rather stout, with 
seven very broad scutella ; toes slender, compressed, ante- 
rior united at the base, first small. Claws moderate, arched, 
compressed, laterally grooved, acute. Plumage soft and 
blended, somewhat compact on the back. Wings of mode- 
rate length, with the first quill very short, the third and 
fourth longest. Tail very long, cuneate or graduated. 
278. 1. Coccyzus Americanus, Linn. Yellow-billed Ame- 
rican Cuckoo. — Rain Crow. Cow-bird. 
Plate II. Male and Female. 
Bill brownish-black above, with the margin of the upper, and nearly 
the whole of the lower mandible yellow ; margin of the eye yellow ; 
upper parts light greenish-brown, with a tinge of grey on the head ; 
lower parts silvery white ; quills with the inner webs brownish-orange ; 
middle tail-feathers like the back, glossed with green, the rest brownish- 
black, all tipped with white, that colour gradually enlarging to the 
outer, which, besides, has nearly the whole outer web white. 
Male, 12|, 16. Female, Ilf, 15|. 
Breeds from Texas to Nova Scotia, and throughout the interior, to 
the eastern bar of the Rocky Mountains. Common. Many spend the 
winter in the Floridas. 
Yellowrbilled Cuckoo, Cuculus carolinensis, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. iv. p. 13. 
Coccyzus americanus, Bo nap. Syn. p. 42. 
Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Coccyzus americanus, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 551. 
Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Coccyzus americanus, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. i. p. 18 ; v. v. 
p. 520. 
279. 2. Coccyzus erythrophthalmus, Wils. Black-billed 
American Cuckoo. — Rain-Crow. Cuckoo-Bird. 
Plate XXXII. Male and Female. 
Bill black ; margin of the eye blue, before and behind bright red ; 
upper parts light greenish-brown ; lower parts silvery- white, the breast 
and sides faintly tinged with yellow ; quills with the inner webs pale 
buff toward the base ; tail-feathers like the back, tipped with white. 
Male, 111, 15. 
From Texas to Nova Scotia, and in the interior to Kentucky. Ra- 
ther common. Migratory. 
Black-billed Cuckoo, Cuculus erythrophthalmus, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. iv. p. 15. 
Coccyzus erythrophthalmus, Bonap. Syn. p. 42. 
St Domingo Cuckoo, Coccyzus dominicus, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 556. 
Black-billed Cuckoo, Coccyzus erythrophthalmus, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. i. p. 170 ^ 
V. V. p. 523. 
