104 BRITISH BIRDS* 
THE CUCKOO. 
THE GOWK. 
( Cuculus CanontSy Lin.— Coucou> Buff.) 
Length fourteen inches ; breadth twenty-five x 
Its bill is black, and fomewhat bent ; eyes yellow ; 
infide of the mouth red ; its head, neck, back, and 
wing coverts are of a pale blue or dove colour, 
which is darkeft on the head and back, and palelt 
on the fore part of the neck and rump ; its break 
and belly are white, elegantly crolfed with wavy 
bars of black ; the quill feathers are duiky, their 
inner webs marked with large oval white fpots ; 
the tail is long ; the two middle feathers are black, 
>vith white tips ; the others duiky, marked with ah 
