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spot, fluttering, trailing her wings, and tumbling over, 

 after the manner of the Partridge, Woodcock, and many 

 other species. Both parents unite in providing food for 

 the young : this consists, for the most part, of caterpillars, 

 particularly such as infest apple-trees : the same insects 

 constitute the chief part of their own sustenance. They 

 are accused, and with some justice, of sucking the eggs 

 of other birds, like the Crow, the Blue Jay, and other 

 pillagers. They also occasionally eat various kinds of 

 berries ; but from the circumstance of destroying such 

 numbers of very noxious larvae they prove themselves 

 the friends of the farmer, and are highly deserving of his 

 protection. — Wilson. 



The typical form is — 



The Red-headed Ground Cuckoo (Coua ruficeps). 



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