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Gftober. Latham obfef ves he has heard it call at midnight more than 

 once or twice in the courfe of the Summer, and adds it was bright 



moon-light every time. 



They feed on Infects, flefh, &c. in the ftomach of feveral that have 

 been difTe&ed the Caterpillars of the Fox * and Buff-tip f Moth have 

 been found ; in others vegetable matter, egg-fhells, Beetles^ &e. 



They are fuppofed to migrate to Africa and Aleppo^ and to viiit 

 feveral countries in their pafTage ; and are known in the northern parts 

 of the world, even to Kamtfcbatka. 



Le Coucou roiix, of BriJfon y is a variety of a young bird, having the 

 upper parts varied with rufous, where the other is white. Birds of 

 the firft year are very liable to variation, fcarce two being found alike ; 

 the bars are much more numerous in fome than in others, and the 

 rround colour more or lefs varied with ferruginous, according to the 



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age. 



On diffe&ion, the ftomach has been difcovered to be very capacious 

 and long ; protruding far beyond the Jiernum^ that part being fo very 

 (hort, as not to be fufficient to take off the preffure in incubation* 

 whereby digeftion may be impeded. This has been afligned as the 

 reafon why it does not hatch its own egg?. 



Length of the adult bird is fourteen inches, breadth twenty-five 

 inches, weight two ounces and an half. 



* PbaL Rv.blo f Phal, Bucepba/a* 



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