no 
BRITISH BIRDS. 
periods of its life. In young Cuckoos the bill, 
legs, and tail are nearly the fame as in the old 
ones ; the eye is blue ; the throat, neck, breaft, 
and belly are elegantly barred with a dark brown 
on a light ground ; the back is of a lead colour, 
mixed with brown, and faintly barred with white 5 
the tail feathers are irregularly marked with black, 
light brown, and white, and tipped with white ; its 
legs are yellow. 
