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this however is now known to be the receptacle for the eggs of 

 grafshoppers ; nor does the cuckow ever fcarcely light upon the 

 ground ; it therefore can as little depofit this froth, as feed upon 

 the plant arum, which with us is called cuckow pint. Perhaps it 

 is more probable both the one and the other may have obtained 

 this name from, their being feen. at the fame time that the cuc- 

 kow appears, than that the bird occafions the former, or feeds 

 upon the latter d , which is an early plant of the fpring. 



a Arum is too acrid to be eaten by a cuckow, or probably any other 

 animal ; nor did I ever fee the leaft appearance of its having been 

 touched. 



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