LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY 



VOL IV 



BIRDS 



CHAPTER VIII 



THE PICARIAN BIRDS continued 



THE CUCKOOS 

 Family CUCULID^I 



THE toucans form the last family of the subordirial group, known as climbing 

 picarians, or Scansores. The cuckoos bring us to the first representatives of a 

 second group, termed cuckoo-like picarians, or Coccyges. In this assemblage the 

 palate of the skull is of the bridged, or desmognathous type, while the arrangement 



(1763) 



