PIES, 
Bill, weak, a little bending. 
Nostrils, bounded by a fmall rim. 
Tongue, Ihort, pointed. 
Toes, two forward, two backward. 
Tail, cuneated ; confids of ten foft feathers. 
Cuckoo, Br. Zool fol. tab. G. G. I. Br. Zool. I. tab. XXXVL 
Inhabits every climate. 
Cuculus of Linn^us and Briffon , IV. 104. The one has XXII 
{pecies ; the other XXVIII. 
The y.o* )tu£, and Coccyx of the Ancients , a word formed from the 
found of the European fpecies. Cuculus is only ufed in an op- 
probrious fenfe. 
Bill, weak, {lender, pointed. 
Nostrils, large and oval, near the ridge of the bill. 
Tongue, very long, cylindric, very {lender, and terminated by a 
hard point, mifllle. 
Toes, two forward, two backward. 
Tail, confiding of ten even and foft feathers. 
Wryneck, Br. Zool. fol. tab. G. Br. Zool, I. tab. XXXVI. 
Its manners, vide Br. Zool. 
Inhabits Europe and Bengal. Only one fpecies known. I uyj? of 
Ariftotle , Jynx of Pliny , Linnaeus, and BriJjon , vol. iv. 3. 
Bill, ftrait, drong, angular; cuneated at the end. 
Nostrils, covered with bridles reflected down. 
Tongue, very long, flender, cylindric, bony, hard, and jagged at 
the end, milfile. 
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XIX. CUCKOO. 
Ext 
XX. WRYNECK. 
Ex, 
XXI. WOOD® 
PECKER. 
Toes, 
