HONEY-GUIDE CUCKOW. 
Royal Society, and inserted in their Philoso- 
phical Transactions, Vol. LXVII. for the 
year 1777, forms the basis of every subse- 
quent history and description of the Honey- 
Guide Cuckow, with which we have hitherto 
become acquainted. « We shall, therefore, tran- 
scribe the whole of it's curious history, from 
this most respectable source, 
" This curious species of Cuckow," says 
Dr. Sparman, " is found at a considerable 
distance from the Cape of Good Hope, in the 
interior parts of Africa, being entirely un- 
known at that settlement. The first place 
where I heard of it, was in a wood called the 
Groot V aadefs Bosch — the Grandfather's 
Wood — situated in a desart near the river 
which the Hottentots call T'kaut'kai. The 
Dutch settlers thereabouts have given this 
bird the name of Honig-Wyzer, or Honey- 
Guide, from it's quality of discovering wild- 
honey to travellers. It's colour has nothing 
striking or beautiful, as will appear from the 
description and drawing annexed ; and it's size 
is considerably smaller than that of our Cuckow 
in Europe : but, in return, the instinct which 
prompts 
