NATURAL HISTORY. ¥93 
te hear the cuckoo on the approach of winter, we 
fhou'd think it a moft lamentable noife; but, hearing 
it as we do, at the approach of fpring, we cannot a- 
void thinking it the moft agreeable, from its being 
attached to ali tho.e enjoyments, with which we know 
nature is then teeming for our accommodation. 
It is about fourteeninches in Jength, twentyfive in 
breadth, and weighs five ounces, little more or lefs, 
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