CHAP. 4. 1. OF PROGNOSTICKS. 139 



and a Leipsick editor renders the word Cuculus* 

 on what authority I know not.* 



The Missletoe Thrush, Turdus mscivorus? 

 frequently sings particularly loud and long 

 before Rain. I have known this bird sing 

 throughout a severe Storm. It is from this 

 circumstance called the Stormcock. 



Mariners at sea expect a Storm when the 

 Stormy Petrels, Procellariae pelagicae, shelter 

 themselves in numbers under the wake of the 

 vessel.f 



Pennant observes, that on the Island of St. 

 Kilda the Fulmar Procellaria glacialis is very 

 useful in foreboding the direction of the Wind. 

 When these birds return to the land in num- 

 bers there will be no West Wind for a long 

 time; when, on the contrary, they return to 

 the Ocean, a Zephyr is expected.^ Several 



* 'Hjxoj xuxxi) MKKvgei Spvog ev ifefdhouri 



To VSpoloV, TgETfSl T (3pOT8$ T? TflpOyt3t yoficLV, 



TTJ/XOJ Zsu; uoi rpiruj ypan pj^ a#oAijy<. 



Hesiod Op. et Dios. 



t Bewick's Birds, 2nd vol. of Waterfowl, 224. 

 J Pennant's Arctic Zool. This is also said by Aratus of 

 the Erodius, 



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Aral. Dios. 



