1^2 CUCKOO. Clafs IL 



appearing here In the fpring before the cuckoo. The 

 Welffj confider it as the forerunner or fervant of that 

 bird, and call it GiJvas y gog, or the cuckoo's atten- 

 dant: the Szvedes regard it in the fame light *. The 

 food of thefe birds is the fame with that of the wood- 

 pecker. Its weight is one ounce and a quarter : the 

 length feven inches ; the breadth eleven. It takes its 

 name from a manner it has of turning its head back to 

 the fhoulders ; efpecially when terrified : it has alfo 

 the faculty of ered:ing the feathers of the head like 

 thofe of the jay. Its eggs are white, and have fo thin 

 a (hell that the yolk may be feen through it. This 

 bird builds in the hollows.of trees, making its neft of 

 dry grafs> in which we have counted nine young. 



Genus VIL The CUCKOO. 

 I. The CUCKOO. 



Le Coqu. Belon ei'v. 132. Cuculus canorus. Lin.fyjl. l68. 



Cuculus. GrZ/jfrflx/. 362. Gjok. Faun.Suec./p. 96. 



Aldr.av. i. 20. Danijh Gjceg v. Kuk. Nor^v-. 

 Cuculo. Olina 38. Gouk. Br. 36. 



Wil. orn. 97. Kuctuft. Kram. 337. 



Raiifyn. a'u. 23. £/-. Zool. 80. plate G. G. I. 

 Le Coucou. BriJJon flf . IC5. 



'"T*^ HIS fingular bird appears In our country early 



•^ in the fpring, and makes the fhorteft (lay with 



us of any bird of pafTage ; it is compelled here, as 



* Jynx hieme non apparet, vere autem remigrans, cuculi, 3oft 

 quatuordccem dies, adventum ruricolis annuntiat. Amaen* 

 acad. iv. 584.. - . 



Mr. 



