GUCKOW. 



PICA RIM. 



387 

 CVCVLIDJR. 





Cuculus canorus, Linnaeus*. 



THE CUCKOW. 



CilcuIus canorus. 



* Pill short and subcylindrieal, culmen somewhat de- 

 Cuculus, / -""" < ; - 1 ; , ^2, near the tip; lower mandible nearly 

 curved, upper mand.blc *f*£**2 circular,^ a prominent mem- 

 straight beneath; gape wide. Nofetnls ' V \ first short , the third longest, 

 branaceou8 , WtapwAJ- £Zr™o?li^ the outer three 



t^SS^titlSJU Tarsi el ,, fathered for nearly 



half their length ; toes two before, two behind. 



Syst. Nat. i. p. 168 (1766). 



