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"There is a Yellow-hilled Cuckoo established in one of our 
neighbors grounds. His notes are hard, dry, and unmusical compared 
with Black-bill’s, and are well represented by Maurice Thompson 
(By-ways & Bird-notes, p, 148), Neither the preliminary, nor the 
terminable syllables are ever doubled as the Black-bill's often are 
I understood you to say thatthe Yellow-bill does not coo - bi.it 
this bird does persistently, I watched him cooing at close range 
this P, M, He throws his head forward and swells his throat with 
each coo . It is seemingly quite an effoEt. Of the Cuckoos that 
I have identified by eye this month, the Yellow-bills outnumber the 
Black-bills five to one, 
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"To return to the Cuckoos- it seems to me, after my slight 
experience of this month , that the Yellow-bill is less shy but 
more taciturn than the Black-bill, 
