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COMMON CUCKOW. 

 (Cuculus canorus. ) 



C. capite, gula, cotto, jugulo cinereis ; pectore ventregue albidus 

 Jusco transversim striatis ; dorso, alisque nigricantibus ; rec- 



tricibus nigricantibus externe, intermediisque medio albido- 



maculatis. 

 Cuckow, with the head, throat, neck, and jugulum cinereous ; 



breast and belly whitish, transversely striated with fuscous; 



back and wings blackish ; tail-feathers blackish, externally 



spotted with whitish, the intermediate quills, with their mid- 

 dle spotted with the same colour. 

 Cuculus canorus. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. l6'8. 1. Faun. Suec. 96. 



Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1.409. Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 207. 1- Briss. 



4. 1O5. 1. Raii. Syn. 23. Will. 6. 10. 27. Ger. Orn. 1. 



80. 67 69. Jenner in Phil. Trans. 78. 21Q. Shaw's Zool. 



Lect. 1 . 60. 

 Le Coucou vulgaire d'Europe. Le Vaill. Ois. cTAfr. 5. 2(5. 



2O2. male. 203. young. 



Coucou. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 6. 305. Bu/. PI. Enl. 811. 

 Common Cuckow. Pen. B>\ Zool. 1 . 82. 36. Arct. Zool. 2. 



266. A. Alb. 1. 8. Lewis Br. Birds 2. 42. Id. t. S.f. 1. 



(OvuM). Lath. Syn. 2. 50$. f. Lath. Sup. 98. Don. Br. 



2, 41. Pult. Cat; Dorset. 5. Lath. Syn. Sup. II. 133. 



Bewick, Br. Birds, 1. ]O8. 



BEAK black, two-thirds of an inch long, and a 

 little bent: yellowish at the base of the under 

 mandible : inside of the mouth red : irides yel- 

 low : head and whole upper part of the bird dark 

 ash-colour, darkest on the head : throat, under 

 side of the neck, and upper part of the breast, pale 

 ash, the latter in some inclining to rufous-brown : 

 lower part of the breast and belly white, marked 



