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BIRDS OF COLORADO. 
387. Coccyzus americanus. Yellow-billed Cuckoo. 
Summer visitant; rare. The only claim this species has 
for admission to the list of Colorado birds is the statement by 
Major C. Bendire that it extends “casually to eastern Colorado.” 
(Life Hist. N. Am. Birds Part II, 19.) It is probably now too 
late to ascertain the foundation for this statement. It must be 
rare in Colorado for all the specimens taken at Fort Lyon, 
only a few miles from the eastern boundary of the State, are 
occidentalis. 
387a. Coccyzus americanus occidentalis. California 
Cuckoo. 
Summer resident; not uncommon locally. Occurs through- 
out the State, below 8,000, but most common on the edge of 
the plains. Specimens taken almost to the Kansas line are 
found to be this variety. Breeds throughout its range in 
Colorado. 
388. Coccyzus erythrophthalmus. Black-billed Cuckoo. 
Migratory ; rare. There is a mounted specimen in the 
museum of the Agricultural College at Fort Collins, taken near 
there on June ii, by G. F. Breninger. Prof. Wm. Osburn writes 
that he took one at Loveland, at which place one was also 
taken by W. G. Smith. These are all the present records for 
Colorado, though it probably some time will be found here 
breeding. 
390- Ceryle alcyon. Belted Kingfisher. 
Resident; common. Breeds throughout the State, from 
the plains to 10,000 feet, although it is more common on the 
lower streams. A few remain even during severe winters 
along the foothills almost to the northern boundary of the 
State. 
393d. Dryobates villosus hyloscopus. Cabanis’s Wood- 
pecker. 
Resident; common. Breeds from the plains to 11,000 
feet and winters at almost as great an elevation. But the 
larger number breed among the pines in summer time and re- 
turn to lower altitudes for the winter. Eggs are laid early in 
May. 
394. Dryobates pubcscens. Downy Woodpecker. 
Visitant; rare, if not accidental. Included among Colo- 
rado birds on the strength of the note of Maj. Bendire that it 
extends “irregularly to Colorado.” (Life Hist. N. Am. Birds, 
part II. 55.) It is probable that this statement is based on the 
geographical range for this species as given in Ridgway’s Man- 
