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CUCKOO. 
82. Cuckoo. 
Bill a little arched. 
Short tongue. 
Ten feathers tn the tail. 
Climbing feet. 
Le Coqu. Belon av. 132. Cuculus canorus Liz. /yf. 168. 
Cuculus. Gefner av. 362. Gjok. Fazz. Suec. fp. 96. 
Aldr. av. \. 20. Danifo Gjoeg v. Kuk. Norv. 
Cuculo. Okna 38. Gouk. Br. 36. 
Wil. orn. 97. -  Kuckuck. Fri/ch. I. 40, 41, 42. 
Raii fyn. av. 23. Kudtucé. Kram. 337. 
Le Coucou. Brifon av.105. Br. Zool. 80. plate G. G. 1. 
Kukautza. Scopoli. No. 48. 
HIS fingular bird appears in our country ear- 
ly in the fpring, and makes the fhorteft ftay 
with us of any bird of paffage; it is compelled 
here, as Mr. Stillingfleet obferves, by that conftitu- 
tion of the air which caufes the fig-tree to put forth 
its fruit *. From the coincidence of the firft appear- 
ance of the fummer birds of paffage, and the lea- 
fing and fruiting of certain plants; this ingenious 
writer would eftablifh a natural calendar in our 
rural ceconomy; to inftruct us in the time of fow- 
ing our moft ufeful feeds, or of doing fuch work as 
depends on a certain temperament of the air. 
As the fallibility of human calendars need not be 
* Calendar of Flora. vid. Preface throughout. 
infifted 
