378 BRITISH BIRDS. 
CUCULUS CANORUS. 
CUCKOO. 
(PiatE 20.) 
Cuculus cuculus, Briss, Orn. iv. p. 105 (1760). 
Cuculus canorus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 168 (1766) ; et auctorum plurimorum— 
Latham, Temminck, Naumann, Bonaparte, Newton, Dresser, &c. 
Cuculus hepaticus, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 215 (1790). 
Cuculus rufus, Bechst, Orn. Taschenb. i. p. 84 (1802). 
Cuculus borealis, Pall. Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. i. p. 442 (1826). 
Cuculus cinereus, Brehm, Vog. Deutschl, p. 152 (1831). 
Cueulus indicus, Cab. Mus. Hein. iv. Heft 1, p. 34 (1862). 
Cuculus telephonus, Herne, Journ. Orn. 1863, p. 352. 
Cuculus libanoticus, Tristram, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 452. 
The Cuckoo is almost as well known in our islands as the Swallow or 
the Sparrow. It is a regular summer visitor to every part of the country, 
and is not only found throughout England and Wales, Scotland and 
Ireland, but is common on the Channel Islands, the Outer Hebrides, and 
the Orkneys, and breeds regularly on the Shetland Islands. 
The breeding-range of the Cuckoo is strictly Palearctic, except that it 
does not include the Siberian tundras, and extends to the Himalayas and 
mountains of South China. The Cuckoo is an accidental visitor to the 
Faroes. In Norway, as might be expected, it ranges furthest north, being 
found above the pine-region wherever the birches are tall enough to afford 
it shelter, almost to the North Cape. In the valleys of the Petchora and 
the Obb it has not been observed north of lat. 664°; but in the valley of 
the Yenesay, though I did not hear it north of lat. 67°, I was assured that 
it was occasionally found up to lat. 69°. Middendorff found it common on 
the Stanovoi Mountains, about lat. 62°; and Dybowsky states that it is 
very common in Kamtschatka. It is an accidental visitor to the Canaries 
and Madeira, but breeds throughout South Europe. In North Africa it is 
principally known as a spring and autumn migrant, but a few remain to 
breed in Algeria. It is a summer visitor to Palestine, Asia Minor, Persia, 
Turkestan, and Afghanistan ; but a few are said to remain to winter in 
South Persia. To Mongolia, China, and Japan it is a summer visitor; but 
to India, Ceylon, Burma, and the Philippines it is only known as a winter 
visitor, except that a few remain to breed in the Himalayas. It is found 
throughout South Africa, but only during our winter. 
In East Siberia, Mongolia, Japan, China, and the Himalayas our 
Cuckoo is found in company with a yery nearly allied species, Cuculus 
