Family 2. TROGONS. Trogonidæ. 1 species.
Family 3. KINGFISHERS. Alcedinidæ. 2 species.
The Cuckoos are a group of world-wide distribution, but are more numerous in the eastern than in the western hemisphere where only thirty-five of the some one hundred and seventy-five species are found. The habit of the European Cuckoo in placing its eggs in the nest of other birds is well known. The American species, however, build nests of their own though it is true they are far from well made structures. With the Anis one nest serves for several females who may deposit as many as thirty eggs, incubation and the care of the young being subsequently shared by the members of this singular family.
Trogons are found in the tropics of both the Old and New Worlds. They are quiet, sedentary birds inhabiting forests and feeding largely on fruit. So far as is known they nest in hollow trees.
Only eight of the one hundred and eighty or more known Kingfishers are found in America, the remaining species being confined to the Old World where they are most numerous in the Malay Archipelago.
=382.1. Thick-billed Parrot= (_Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha_). L. 16.5. _Ads._ Forehead, loral region, stripe over eye, bend of wing and thighs red; greater under wing-coverts yellow; rest of plumage green.
Range--Central Mexico north rarely to southern Arizona.
=382. Carolina Paroquet= (_Conurus carolinensis_). L. 12.5 _Ads._ Forehead and cheeks deep orange, rest of head yellow. _Yng._ Forehead and loral region orange; rest of head green like back; no yellow on bend of wing. _Notes._ A sharp, rolling _kr-r-r-r-r-r_.
Range.--Formerly eastern United States, north to Maryland, Great Lakes, and Iowa; west to Colorado, Oklahoma and eastern Texas; now restricted to southern Florida and parts of Indian Territory.
=383. Ani= (_Crotophaga ani_). Resembling No. 384 but upper mandible without grooves. _Notes._ A complaining whistled _oo-eeek_, _oo-eeek_.
Range eastern South America; north to West Indies and Bahamas, rarely to southern Florida; accidental in Louisiana and Pennsylvania.
=384. Groove-billed Ani= (_Crotophaga sulcirostris_). L. 12.5 B. .7 _high_; the upper mandible with ridges and furrows. _Ads._ Blue-black, many of the feathers with iridescent margins.