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THE C U CK Or) 
ete edt ls Welk and bending. : 
~ The noftrils a little prominent (or jetting out ,) and mate 
gined, (or with a rim. Nek ai 
The tongue flatted, frait, and in the form of an arroWe 
The toes two before and twe behind, for climbing. 3 
Ten feathers in the tail, which is in the form of a wedges 
‘HE Cuckoo is rather fmaller than a pigeon; 
he is a bird of 'paflage ; he makes his ap- 
pearance .early in the fpring, and ftays with us 
—buta fhort time. If the feafon be mild, he comes — 
the fooner. The Cuckoo is filent for fome time 
after his firft coming. His note is cuckoo, 
from which he takes his name; and he repeats it 
in the morning, in the Fatiiig from a withered 
‘bough, on which he is generally perched. 
Unlike the generality of birds, Cuckoos do 
- not pair; it does -not appear “neceflary, becaufe 
| they neither hatch nor rear their young. When _ 
a female appears on the wing, fhe is often at- 
tended by two or three males, who feem to be 
earneftly contending for her. From the time of 
her appearance, till after the middle of fummer, 
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