CUCULUS. ou 
334. CUCULUS CANORUS Linneus. 
EUROPEAN CUCKOO. 
Cuculus canorus LINNXUS, Syst. Nat. ed. 10 (1758), 1, 110; SHELLEY, Cat. 
Birds Brit. Mus. (1891), 19, 245; BLANrorD, Fauna Brit. Ind. Bds. 
(1895), 3, 205, fig. 60 (head); SHarpr, Hand-List (1900), 2, 158; 
OaTES and ReEip, Cat. Birds Eggs (1903), 3, 105; McGrecor and Wor- 
CESTER, Hand-List (1906), 61. 
Basilan (McGregor); Batan (McGregor); Calayan (McGregor); Palawan 
(Platen) ; Siquijor (Bourns € Worcester). Europe and northern Asia; in winter 
to Africa, Indian Peninsula, Malayan subregion to Australia. 
“Adult male.—General color above leaden gray, slightly shaded with 
olive on the mantle and wings; quills dark brown, more or less notched 
with white on the inner webs; lateral upper tail-coverts narrowly edged . 
and partially barred with white; tail slaty black, with white ends to all 
the feathers and with about seven double white spots along their shafts 
and white notches on their inner webs never forming bars across the 
feathers; sides of the head and neck, chin, and throat gray, slightly 
paler than the crown; remainder of the under parts white, shaded with 
buff on the abdomen and under tail-coverts, and very regularly barred 
with dusky black; axillars and under wing-coverts barred like the breast, 
with a portion near the bend of the wing and most of the greater series 
leaden gray; quills beneath dusky brown, with white bars on their inner 
webs, broadest and most strongly marked toward the base of the feathers. 
Bill black, yellowish at the base and edges; iris and legs yellow. Length, 
356; culmen, 229; wing, 226; tail, 178; tarsus, 20. 
“Adult female.—Differs only in plumage from the male in having the 
base of the throat shaded with rufous. Length, 320; culmen, 22; wing, 
malate, 1735 tarsus, 19. 
“Nestling.—General plumage above dark brown, partially barred with . 
rufous, with a narrow white terminal margin to each of the feathers, 
broadest on the wings and tail; crown and nape much mottled with 
white; sides of the head, chin, and throat blackish brown and white 
in broad bars of nearly even breadth; remainder of the under surface of 
the body white, with blackish brown bars not half the width of the inter- 
vening white spaces. Length, 170; wing, 127. 
“Young nearly full-grown.—Above gray, passing into brownish black 
on the head, wings, and tail; crown and nape mottled with white feathers ; 
feathers of the head, neck, wings, and tail strongly barred with rufous; 
remainder of the back much less distinctly barred, each feather being 
tipped with white next to a subterminal dark bar; tail with waved rufous 
bars passing into white near the shafts of the feathers and with white 
