PICARIH). 
Fam. CUCULIDHl. 
Bill more or less slender, curved, and compressed ; the nostrils exposed and variable in 
position ; gape wide. Feet zygodactyle ; the outer anterior toe longer than the outer posterior 
one. Tail more or less long and broad. 
Subfam. CUCULINfE. 
Nostrils swollen ; the head sometimes crested. Tail variable. The tarsi feathered anteriorly, 
and the thigh-feathers long, hiding the tarsus. Stomach villous. ( Sharpe , P. Z. S. 1873, p. 579, 
in part.) 
Genus CUCULUS. 
Bill moderately slender ; gape wide, the culmen gently curved. Nostrils round, apert and 
basal. Wing tolerably long and pointed; the 3rd quill the longest, and the 1st shorter than or 
subequal to the 7th. Tail graduated, generally long. Tarsus not longer than the middle toe, 
feathered above at the front, the lower part covered with broad transverse scales. Inner anterior 
toe much shorter than the outer, and not so long as the outer posterioi one. 
CUCULUS CANOEUS. 
(THE COMMON CUCKOO.) 
Cumins canorus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 168 (1766) ; Sykes, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 98 ; Gould, B. of 
Europe, pi. 240 (1887); Jerdon, Cat. B. S. India, Madr. Journ. 1840, xi. p. 219 ; Blyth, 
Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 71 (1849) ; Layard et Kelaart, Prodromus, Suppl. Cat. p. 60 
(1858) ; Layard, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1854, xiii. p. 452 ; Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. 
Mus. E. I. Co. ii. p. 702 (1856); Blakiston, Ibis, 1862, p. 325; Jerdon, B. of Ind. i. 
p. 322 (1862) ; Holdsworth, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 430; Gould, B. of Gt. Britain, vol. hi. 
pi. 67 (1873); Hume, Nests and Eggs (Bough Draft), p. 133 (1873); Ball, Str. heath. 
1874, p. 393; Bligh, J. A. S. (Ceylon Branch), 1874, p. 67 ; Hume, Str. Feath. 1875, 
p. 78; Butler, ibid. 1875, p. 460; Scully, ibid. 1876, p. 134; Hume, ibid. p. 288; 
Blakiston and Pryer, Ibis, 1878, p. 227 ; Dresser, B. of Europe, pt. 69 (1878). 
Cuculus hepaticus, Sparrm. Mus. Carls, iii. pi. 55 (1787). 
Cuculus borealis, Pall. Zoogr. Kosso-Asiat. i. p. 442 (1811). 
Cuculus indicus. Cab. et Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 34 (1862-3). 
Cucu, Spanish (Saunders) ; Phu-Phu in Dehra Doon ; Kukupho, Lepchas ; Akku, Bhotan 
(Jerdon) ; Rako, Japanese (Blakiston) ; Kakkok, Turkestan (Scully). 
