Cy Ue Casks (0). W. 
GENUS XX. C40 CK OW. 
N° 1. Common C, N° 8. Blue-headed C, 
2. Cupreous C. g. Pheafant C. 
3. Gilded C. 10. Tippet C. 
4. Honey C. 11. Fan-tailed C. 
5- Long-billed Rain C, 12. Gloffy C. 
6. Touraco C, 13. Abyffinian C. 
7. Noify C. 
* Wiru Four Tors. 
Cuculus canorus, Ind. Orn. i. p. 207. 1. 
Cuckow, Gen. Syn. ti. p. 509. 1.——Ld. Sup. p. 98.—Phil. Tranf. vol. Ixxviii. 
Ps 219.— Fenner. 
E have fome reafon to fuppofe that the ege of the Cuckow is 
not generally known, for fome authors + tell us that it weighs 
full a quarter of an ounce; that it is not laid in the neft of another 
bird, but between the roots of old trees on the ground; that the eggs 
are two in number. It is clear from this defcription, that it can mean 
no other than that of the Goat/ucker. 
Such is the cafe likewife in refpect to that figured in Sepp’s plate 
of the Cuckow $, and cannot by any means be miftaken. The ego of 
the Cuckow, however, is fcarcely half as large as either of the figures 
above alluded to, and in fize is more difproportionate to the bird than 
any, except the Raven. The Cuckow’s ege weighs rarely ever more 
+ Naturforfch, xiv. p. 49.—Befeh. d. Berl, Ge/f. iv. t.18- f. 16 
tT Sepp. Vog. p. 117. tab. 62, _ 
than 
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