777 /. >///" ii /;///. /;/, j M KUWAIT CUCKOO. 



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uri the lowest (tranche-, rapidly tuaki its way through tin- l-.u-li- i" the Tery summit, and 

 then takes t4> win-. 



Tin- nest f ihi- l.iid is placed mi the ground. >li:n|.-.l l,\ a c.,n\enient tuft <if urum. It is 



a larire and rather clmii-il \ rmisti tided editice ; haxini: two ajiei ,_:li <f which 



tin- hen. while sjniiiL:. thrusts her head. :m<l thrmi^h tin- <iiln-r H)I.- pokes her tail. Tin- 

 mgen'i I' \ from thn-< to livi in uuher, lid R BQCl -;'.:: :c! i: .m i- . !. i.illv tfia 

 unions liinl". Tlu-ir r-|or is u r n\ i-h-\\liit<-, >oiiu-tiiiii'> l>l>t<-ln'<l with limwn, and Uiey are 

 remarkable fr tin- i.'ii_'lin. ^ ,,f their s|i,-|]s. 



The colors of this l.jpl ;ue n<,i lirilliaiit, 1'iit an- rich :ui<l \varni in their tone and disj>o*ed 

 SO as to f. .mi \et\ i.i.ld markings. The II|>|MT surface of the body is Hack devoid of gloss, 

 with the exception of the shafts of th' feathers; which are highly polinhed and ^lilt. 

 The \ t'rta are brown mottled rii-hly with Mack. The wings are ruddy he.stnut barred 



with l>la<'k. ami the tail is dark brown gloHw-d with gnn-n. freckletl with t-rown, Imrred with 

 white and tii>i>>d with the sjime color. The young birds are much lighter in color than their 

 parent.-, arv more liberally streaked, and hav moiv white about them. 





^.I.l...^ Hll.i.K,. CUCKOO 



WILSOIT says : " The singular, I will not say unnatural, conduct of the European Cuckoo 

 (Cuculus canorut), which never constructs a nest for itself, but drops its eggs in those of oilier 

 birds, and abandons them to their mercy and management, is so universally known, and so 

 proverl>ial. that the whole tribe of Cuckoos have, by some inconsiderate people, been stigma- 

 tized as destitute of all parental care and afTe<ti..n. Without attempting to account for this 

 remarkable habit of the Kuropean ppecies, far less to consider as an error what the wisdom of 

 Heaven has imposed as a duty upon the species, I will only remark that the YELLOW-BIU i i> 

 AMKI:I< \N CUCKOO builds its own nest, hatches its own eggs, and rears its own youmr ; 

 and, in conjugal and parental affection, seems nowise behind any of its neighbors of the 

 grove. 



