C U C K O W. ^^ 



Hedge Sparrow, greatly elongated in fhape, the ground-colour not 

 unlike it, and mottled all over with ferruginous purple *. 



I have mentioned before the circumftance of my having heard 

 the Cuckow call in the tiight. This happened again to me, the 

 loth 0^ May, 1783, when, being in my own garden, between ele- 

 ven and twelve at night, I heard one call feveral times together 

 very diftinftly. It may not be amifs to obferve, that not only the 

 lafl: night, but the others in which I heard it, was bright moon- 

 light. 



The Cuckow extends to India, I have twice feen it in drawings 

 from thence. 



Eaftern Black Cuckow, Geti. Syn, ii. p. 5 18. 10 



C I Z E of a M<3^/)?V : length fixteen inches. Bill whitilli, pretty p astern 

 flrong : general colour of the plumage black ; acrofs the BLACK C. 

 wings three narrow bars of white, and near the end of the tail the Descriptiow. 

 fame : legs pale blue. 



Inhabits 7«i/« ; called Coz^i?!?/. — 'L.z.dy Imp ey. Plac*. 



I find that there are two or three fpecies of Cuckotvs In India, 

 which are known by the name of Ktiill, or Coweel; one as large as 

 a Jay, and all of them frequenting woods. They for the moffc 

 part fly in fmall flocks, rarely fingly : the food infeds. Thefe are 

 held in veneration by the Mahometans ; but by others the flefh is 

 accounted delicate, a fingle bird being fometimes fold to the lo- 

 vers of good eating for twenty-four //ww. It is laid to fing wtry 

 finely, as a Nightingale -f. 



» Portland Mufcitm, f '^S Philof. p. 68, 



O 2 Hdney 



