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A. E.UROPEAK Cuckoo, Br. Zool. i. N° 82. tab. xxxvi. -fern. — Latham, i.c^og, 

 Cuculus Canorusj Gjok, Faun Suec. N° g6. 

 Le CoucQUj De Buffon, vi. 305. — Lev. Mus. 



1'^ With dove-colored head, hind part of the neck^ back, rump^ 

 and coverts : throat, and under fide of the neck, of a pale grey: 

 breafi: and belly white, barred with black : primaries dufky -, inner 

 ;webs marked v/ith white oval fpots:: tail cuneiform ; middle feathers 

 black, tipped with white ; the reft marked with white fpots on each 

 web. Female, Neck of a browniih,Ted : tail barred with ruft- color 

 and black, and fpo^:ted with white. 

 .i'LACE. Inhabits all -ps^rts .01 Europe, as high a.5, SaUens Fogderie, in Nor' 



way *, within the ArcStic circle -, and even at Loppen, in Finmark f . 

 It is found equally high in Afia ; and extends as far eafc as Kamtf- 

 xhatka. In all places it retains its fingular note, and its more Angu- 

 lar nature of laying its eggs in the nefts of fmall birds, and totally 

 .^deferting them %. Of the above circumftance I beg leave to add a 

 .proof, which fell under my own notice in Jun-e 1778 j when I faw a 

 young Cuckoo, almoft full grown (when I firft difcovered it) in the 

 ,neft of a v/hite Wagtail, beneath fome logs in a field adjacent to my 

 ■houfe. The Wagtail was as felicitous to feed it, as if it had been 

 its own offspring ; for, many days after the Cuckoo fled, it was feen 

 often perched on the adjacent walls, ftill attended and fed by the 

 Wagtail. 



It arrives in the northern and eaftern parts of Afia, about the tenth 

 ■of Jme. 



* P.antop/iwji, f Leems, 2^1. f Dr. Pallas. 



WRYNECK. 



