PLATE CCXXXV. 



Cuculus Canorus : cauda roiiindata nigricante albo-pun6tata. Linn, 

 Faun. Suec, 96.— Scop. Ann. I. p. Ai^. n, 48. 

 ISlozem, NederL Fogel. t. 6\, 



II Cuculo, Olin uc. t, p. 38. 



Coucou, Buff. VI. p. 305.— 'PL Enl. 811. 



The plumage of the Cuckow in its early ftate of growth is fo very 

 different from that of the adult bird, that we are entirely perfuaded 

 no one unconverfant with the tranlitions it is known to undergo, would 

 be eafily induced to believe it the fame bird. Neither can it efcape 

 the obfervation of the accurate Ornithologift that fome errors have 

 arifen on this fubjcift in the volumes of the early naturalifts before its 

 hiftory was fully underftood. In this ftage of growth the common 

 Cuckow is affuredly the red and rufous Cuckow of certain ancient 

 writers ; and even fome among the better authors of our own times 

 are not wholly free frorn this or fimilar errors. 



In the 29th Plate of the Second Volume of this work, the adult 

 bird has appeared already ; and the younger bird exhibiting the rufous 

 variegated plumage, is the fubje6l chofen for oiu* prefent Plate. 



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