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195 



Cuckoo. — Contin. 



Father Kircher gives it (Musurgia, bk. i. p. 30) as 

 follows : — 



^ ni-i _ nn mt oi-i f»n _ /»ii 



Gu - cu, gu - cu, gu - cu, 



Gardiner puts it in the major : — 



fLf r i i r— 



=t 



See Index, Cuckoo. 



For intervals of English cuckoo song see Nature, vol. xxii., 1880, pp. 

 76, 97, 122; vol. xxxvi., 1887, p. 344. 



For manner in delivery see Knight, F. A. : By Leafy Ways, p. 18. 



Bell-Bird. 



The cuckoo has a delightful rival in distinctness of 

 utterance, one of the gayly -colored cotingas inhabiting the 

 mountains of Demerara : — 



" The fifth species is the celebrated Campanero of the Spaniards, called 

 Dara by the Indians, and Bell-bird by the English. He is about the size 

 of the jay. His plumage is white as snovf. On his forehead rises a spiral 

 tube nearly three inches long. It is jet black, dotted all over with small 

 white feathers. It has a communication with the palate, and when filled 

 with air, looks like a spire; when empty it becomes pendulous. His note 

 is loud and clear, like the sound of a bell, and may be heard at tlie dis- 

 tance of three miles. In the midst of these extensive wilds, generally ou 

 the dried top of an aged mora, almost out of gun reach, you will see the 

 campanero. No sound or song from any of the winged inhabitants of 

 the forest, not even the clearly pronounced ' Whip-poor-Will ' from the goat- 

 sucker, causes such astonishment as the toU of the campanero. With 

 many of the feathered race, he pays the common tribute of a morning and 

 an evening song ; and even when the meridian sun has shut in silence the 

 mouths of almost the whole of animated Nature, the campanero still cheers 

 the forest. You hear his toll, and then a pause for a minute, then another 



