. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. 434 THE CUCKOO. In general appearance the Cuckoo bears some resemblance to a bird of prey, but it haa little of the predaceous nature. It is rather curious that small birds have a tendency to treat the Cuckoo much as they treat the hawks and owls, following it wherever it flies in the open country, and attending it through the air. The color of the plumage is bluish gray above, with the exception of the wdngs and tail, which are black, and barred with white on the exterior feathers. The
. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. 434 THE CUCKOO. In general appearance the Cuckoo bears some resemblance to a bird of prey, but it haa little of the predaceous nature. It is rather curious that small birds have a tendency to treat the Cuckoo much as they treat the hawks and owls, following it wherever it flies in the open country, and attending it through the air. The color of the plumage is bluish gray above, with the exception of the wdngs and tail, which are black, and barred with white on the exterior feathers. The chin, neck, and breast are ashen-gray, and the abdomen and under wing-coverts are white, barred with slaty-gray. Sometimes the color varies from these tints, and a white specimen may occasionally be found. Yearling birds of both sexes are hair-brown above, barred profusely with brownish- red : the quill-feathers of the wing are reddish-brown, barred with white, while those of the tail are of the same dark tinge, but without the white bars, and spotted with white along the centre of the feathers. The whole of the under portions of the body are gray-white, barred with brown, and the short tail is tipped with white. A little white also appears on the tips of some of the feathers on the upper surface of the body. Tlie total length of the adult bird is about fourteen inches. The female is rather smaller than her mate, and may be distin- guished from the opposite sex by the brown bars upon her neck, and the brown tinge upon the back and '^^S. 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 Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889; Holder, Joseph B. (Joseph Bassett), 1824-1888; Prang, Louis, 1824-1909, lithographer; Brehm, Alfred Edmund, 1829-1884; Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889. Illustrated natural histo
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