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COMMON CUCKOW. 

 (Cuculus canorus. ) 



C. capite, gula, collo, jugulo cinereis ; pectore ventreque albidas 

 Jiisco transversim striatis ; dorso, alisque nigricantibus ; rec- 

 tricibus nigricantibus externe, inter mediisque medio albido- 

 maculatis. 



Cuckow, with the head, throat, neck, and jugulum cinereous ; 

 breast and belly whitish, transversely striated with fuscous; 

 back and wings blackish ; tail-feathers blackish, externally 

 spotted with whitish, the intermediate quills, with their mid- 

 dle spotted with the same colour. 



Cuculus canorus. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 168. I. —Faun. Suec, 96. — 

 Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 409. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 207- 1. — Briss. 

 4. 105. 1. — Rait. Syn. 23. — Will. 6. 10. 27. — Ger. Orn. 1. 

 80. 67. 69. — Jenner in Phil. Trans. 78. 219. — Shaft's Zool. 

 Led. 1. 60. 



Le Coucou vulgaire d'Europe. he Vaill. Ois. d'Afr. 5. 26. 



202. male. 203. young. 

 Coucou. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 6. 305.— Buff. PI. Enl. 811. 

 Common Cuckow. Pen. Br. Zool. 1. 82. 36. — Arct. Zool. 2. 



266. A.— Alb. 1. 8.— Letvis Br. Birds 2. 42.- -Id. t. 8./. 1. 



(Ovum). — Lath. Syn. 2. 50Q.f. — Lath. Sup. 98. — Don. Br. 



2. 41. — Pult. Cat. Dorset. 5.— Lath. Syn, Sup. II. 133. — 



Bevoick, Br. Birds, 1. 108. 



Beak black, two-thirds of an inch long, and a 

 little bent: yellowish at the base of the under 

 mandible : inside of the mouth red : irides yel- 

 low : head and whole upper part of the bird dark 

 ash-colour, darkest on the head : throat, under 

 side of the neck, and upper part of the breast, pale 

 ash, the latter in some inclining to rufous-brdwn : 

 lower part of the breast and belly white, marked 



