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return to this country has the neck barred with brown, and 

 the wings and back tinged with brown ; adult females 

 differ but little from adult males. 



Young birds of the year, when they have attained the 

 length of twelve inches, have the irides brown ; whole of 

 the upper surface of head and body barred alternately with 

 brownish red and clove brown ; quill and tail-feathers red- 

 dish brown, the former barred with white, the latter spotted 

 with white in the line of the shaft of the feather : neck, 

 breast, and under parts, dull white, closely barred with 

 dark brown. 



The vignette below is a representation of the breast-bone 

 and the foot of our Common Cuckoo. 



