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CUCULUS CANORUS. THE GREY CUCKOO. 



Cuculus canorus. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 168. 



Cuculus canorus. Lath. Ind. Orn. T. 207. 



Common Cuckoo. Mont. Orn. Diet. 



Coucou gris. Cuculus canorus. Temm. Man. d'Orn. L 3SL IIL 272. 



Common Cuckoo. Cuculus canorus. Selb. Illustr. I. 397. 



Cuculus canorus. Common Cuckoo. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 154. 



In both sexes the upper parts hluish-grey, the fore part and 

 sides of the neck ash-grey^ the breast and sides of the body bluish- 

 ichite^ transversely barred with brownish-blacky the quills dusky- 

 brown, tinged externally with grey^ their inner webs barred with 

 white ; the tail-feathers greyish-black, spotted along the shafts and 

 071 the inner web, and tipped with white. Young with the upper 

 parts transversely barred with light red and clove-brown, the 

 lower with broicnish-white and dusky. 



Male. — This general favourite, whose cry is familiar to all, 

 either in the oriffinal, or through the medium of imitations, is 

 one of the most elegantly formed and agreeably coloured of our na- 

 tive birds. The singular circumstances connected with its mode 

 of propagation have moreover rendered it an object of peculiar 



