Cuckoo. INSESSORES. CUCULUS. 397 



COMMON CUKOO. 



CucuLus cANORUs, Linn, 

 PLATE XXXVII. AND PLATE XLV. • • • Fig. 1. 



Cuculus canorus, Li7i7i. Syst. 1. p. 168. 1 — Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 409. sp. 1 — 



Rail Syn. p. 23 — Will. p. 6. t. 10. 27 — Briss. 4. p. 105. I.— Lath. Ind. 



Ornith. v. 1. p. 207. 1. 

 Cuculus hepaticus, Lath. Ind. Ornith. v. 1. p. 215. sp. 25. 

 Le Caucou gris, Buff. Ois. v. 6. p. .305.— Jrf. PL Eni. 811. 

 Le Vaill. Ois. d'Afric. v. 5. pi. 202. and 200 Temm. Man. d'Ornith. v. 1. 



p. 382. 

 Asch-Grauer order gemeine Kukuk, Bechst. Naturg. Deut, v. 2. p. 1120. 



— Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. v. 1. p. 110. — Frisch. Vog. t. 40. 

 Cuculus canorus rufus, Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 409. sp. 1. var. B — Lath. Ind. 



Ornith. v, 1. p. 208. var. B. 

 Common Cuckoo, Br. Zool. 1. No. 82. pi. 36 Arct. Zool. 2. p. 266. A — 



Lewiti's Br. Birds, t. 42 IIaiie''s Br. Birds, t. 17. 18 — Lath. Syn. 2. 



p. 509. 1 — Id. Supp. p. 98 Mont. Ornith. Diet — Id. Supp.— ^m-icA:'* 



Br. Birds, p. 108 Shaw's Zool. v. 9. p. 68. 



Provincial — Gowk. 



The Cuckoo makes its appearance with us in the month Periodical 

 of April, and departs again about the latter part of June, or 

 the beginning of July. But the young birds are often ob- 

 served to remain for a much longer period, and I have shot 

 them as late as in the month of September. The reputed 

 story of the Cuckoo making no nest of its own, but deposit- 

 ing its egg in that of some other bird, to be hatched, and the 

 young one reared by foster-parents, has, within these late 

 years, been fully substantiated, and found to have its origin 

 in fact. A very interesting paper on this subject, by Dr 

 Jenner, is given in the Philosophical Transactions for 1788, 

 to which, and the very apposite and curious observations of 

 Mr Montagu on the economy of this bird, in the Introduc- 

 tion to his Ornithological Dictionary, I beg to refer my 

 readers. It appears that the nest of the Hedge- Accentor 

 {Accentor modularis), is the one most frequently selected by 

 the Cuckoo in the south of England ; sometimes, however, 

 that of the Yellow-hammer (Emberiza cit7'inella), the Wag- 



