232 CUCKOO. O.ClassII. 



V. Bill a little arched. 



CUCKOO. Short tongue. 



Ten feathers in the tail. 

 Climbing feet. 



82. Cuckoo. Le Coqu. Belon a<v. 132. CuculuscanorusZ,?«.^y?. 168, 



Cuculus. Gefner a^, 362. Gjok. Faun. Suec. fp. 96. 



Aldr, a'v. I. 20. Danijh Gjoeg v. Kuk. Norv^ 

 CqcuIo. Olina 38. Gouk. Br. 36. 



Wil. orn. 97. Kuckuck. /r//c]^. 1.40, 41, 42. 



Rail Jyn. a-v. 23. Kuftuft. Kram. 337. 



Le Coucou. Brjjfon av, 105. Br. Zool, 80. plate G. G. i. 



Kukautza. Scopoli. No. 48. 



THIS fingular bird appears in our country ear- 

 ly in the fpring, and makes the fhorteft flay 

 with us of any bird of pafTage ; it is compelled 

 here, as Mr. Stillingfleet obferves, by that conftitu- 

 tion of the air which caufes the fig-tree to put forth 

 its fruit*. From the coincidence of thefirft appear- 

 ance of the fummer birds of pafTage, and the lea- 

 fing and fruiting of certain plants ; this ingenious 

 writer would eilablifh a natural calendar in our 

 rural oeconomy ; to inflru6l us in the time of fow- 

 ing our mofl ufeful feeds, or of doing fuch work as 

 depends on a certain temperament of the air. 

 As the fallibility of human calendars need not be 



* Calendar of Flora, ^id. Preface throughout, 



infilled 



