. The natural history of birds [microform] : from the French of the Count de Buffon. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. CUCKOO. 305 Cuckoo of Madagafcar; with others, which have a proportionally longer and flenderer bill, as the tocco of Cayenne ; with others, wherein the internal and poflerior toe is arnfied with a long Ipur, like that of our larks, as the houhou of Egypt, the Cuckoo of the Philippines, the green Cuckoo of Antigua, the toulou and the rufty-white ; and laftly, with others, wherein the legs are more or lefs Ihort, more or lefs feathered, or even without any feather or d
. The natural history of birds [microform] : from the French of the Count de Buffon. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. CUCKOO. 305 Cuckoo of Madagafcar; with others, which have a proportionally longer and flenderer bill, as the tocco of Cayenne ; with others, wherein the internal and poflerior toe is arnfied with a long Ipur, like that of our larks, as the houhou of Egypt, the Cuckoo of the Philippines, the green Cuckoo of Antigua, the toulou and the rufty-white ; and laftly, with others, wherein the legs are more or lefs Ihort, more or lefs feathered, or even without any feather or dov/n. Even what is regarded as the mofl fixed and certain character, I mean the difpofition of the toes, two placed before and two behind, is alio liable to vary ; fince I have obfervcd, in the Cuckoo, that one of the hind toes fometimes turns forwards, and others have found, in the owls, that one of the anterior toes fometimes turns backwards ; but thefe flight differences, far from confounding; the sienus of the Cuckoos, difplay the true order of nature; as they fliew the richnefs of her plans, and the eafe with which they are executed; exhibiting the end- lels variety of (hades, the infinite diveriity of features which diftinguifh the individual, and vet without obliteratino; the e:eneral family like- nefs. It is a remarkable circumftance with refiard O to the tribe of Cuckoos, that the branch fettled in the new world feems lefs fubjecl to the va- riations which I have mentioned, and retains a greater refemblance to the European fpecies VOL. VI. X confidcred IV I ifM II i .J'J m 4. 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 Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788. London : Printed for A. Strahan, and T. Cadell in the Strand, and J. Murray . ..
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