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AN UNCAGED ZOO 



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The honey-guide was originally descril,)ed as a cuckoo 

 (Cuculus indicator), sometimes the Bee cuckoo. It 

 resembles the cuckoos in two particulars. Its feet are 

 zygodactylous, that is, the four toes are arranged in two 

 pairs, of which one pair is turned forward and the 



A Bush Shrike {JJri/osr.o/nis J'lriiehris). 

 Speke's "Black nietal-toneil Whistlef." 



other backwards. The other feature is i;ot to the credit 

 of either bird, for it is a.sserted that the honey -guide, 

 like the cuckoo, lays its eggs in the nest of some other 

 bird and allows the rightful owner of the nest to hatch 

 put both sets of eggs, 



