. Citizen bird: scenes from bird-life in plain English for beginners. Birds. 320 CITIZEN BIRD Below white, with a bhie belt across the breast, and the female with a brown belt also. A Citizen of North America. Belonging to no usefnl guild, but a rather startling, amusing neighbor, who always minds his own business and is an indus- trious fishermau. ''What was the other bird, avIio cried, ' kuk kuk I ' on the outside of the woods? There, it is calling again ! Tni sure that it is a Wood|)ecker I " '' Wrong again — it is a Cuckoo ; the Yellow - billed one, I think, for the voice is louder an
. Citizen bird: scenes from bird-life in plain English for beginners. Birds. 320 CITIZEN BIRD Below white, with a bhie belt across the breast, and the female with a brown belt also. A Citizen of North America. Belonging to no usefnl guild, but a rather startling, amusing neighbor, who always minds his own business and is an indus- trious fishermau. ''What was the other bird, avIio cried, ' kuk kuk I ' on the outside of the woods? There, it is calling again ! Tni sure that it is a Wood|)ecker I " '' Wrong again — it is a Cuckoo ; the Yellow - billed one, I think, for the voice is louder and harsher than that of his Black-billed ; ''What ! a little blue and white bird like the one that bobs out of mother's carved clock at home? Oh, do let us try to find it! But this bird didn't say 'cuckoo'; it only cackled something like a Hen when she is tired of ; " The clock Cuckoo is an imitation of the merry, heedless English bird, who lays her eggs in the wrong nests, as our Cowbird does. The Yellow-billed Cuckoo is quite different, being long, slender, and graceful,. Yellow-billed Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Wright, Mabel Osgood, 1859-1934; Coues, Elliott, 1842-1899. New York : The Macmillan company
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