Class II. 



CUCKOO. 



305 



GENUS VII. CUCKOO. 



Bill a little arched, roundish. 

 Tongue short, horny at the end, entire. 

 Feet climbing. 



Cuculus canoras. C. ciiiereus, 

 subtus albidus fusco transver- 

 sim striatus, cauda rotundata 

 nigricante albo punctata. Lath. 

 Ind. orn. 207. id, Syn. ii. 

 509. id. Sup. i. 98. id. Sup. 

 ii. 133. 



Le Coqu. Belonav. 132. 



Cuculus. Gesner av. 362. 



Aldr. av. i. 20. 



Cuculo. Olina 38. 



Wil. orn. 97. 



Rail syn. av. 23. 



Jenner in Phil Tr. I788. 2I9. 



Le Coucoii. Brissonav, 105. 

 Hist, d'ois. vi. 305. PL Enl. 



811. 

 Cuculus canorus. Gm. Lin. 



409. 

 Gjok. Faun. Suec. sp. q6. 

 Danish Gjoeg v. Kuk. Norv. 



Gouk. Br. 36. 

 Kuckuck. Frisch, i. 40, 41, 



42. 

 Kuctuct. Kram. 337. 

 Kukautza. Scopoli. No. 48. 

 Br. Zool. 80. plate G. G. 1. 



Arct.Zool. i. 312. 



1. CoMaioN. 



X HIS singular bird appears in our country 

 early in the spring, and makes the shortest stay 

 with us of any bird of passage ; it is compelled 

 here, as Mr. Stillingfteet observes, by that con- 

 stitution of the air which causes the fig-tree to 

 put forth its fruit.* From the coincidence of 



* Calendar of Flora, A new edition of Stillingfleet's 



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