. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relation; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . r-ate size. Feet very short; the tarsus feathered halfway down,anteriorly scutellate, scaly behind, and rather sharp. Toessmall, broad beneath ; the first very small, the third longest;the fourth longer than the second, and reversed. Claws rathersmall, arched, much compressed, laterally grooved, rather acute. I*lumage soft and blended ; the feat
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relation; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . r-ate size. Feet very short; the tarsus feathered halfway down,anteriorly scutellate, scaly behind, and rather sharp. Toessmall, broad beneath ; the first very small, the third longest;the fourth longer than the second, and reversed. Claws rathersmall, arched, much compressed, laterally grooved, rather acute. I*lumage soft and blended ; the feathers ovate, with a shortplumule ; those on the rump elongated and rather stiff. AVingslong, straight, and pointed, with twenty quills ; primaries taper-ing and rounded, the first a third shorter than the second, thethird longest; secondaries short, broad, abrupt, the innerrounded. Tail long, graduated, of twelve rounded feathers. This genus is especially remarkable for containing birds whichdeposit their eggs in the of other and smaller birds ofvarious genera, leaving them there to be hatched, and thuscommitting their oftspring to the care of strangers. Only onespecies this country in summer. 109 CUCULUS CANORUS. THE GREY Fig. 209. Cuculus canorus. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. ]08. Cuculus canorus. Lath. Ind. Orn. I. 207. Common Cuckoo. Mont. Orn. Diet. Coucou gris. Cuculus canorus. Temni. Man. dOrn. L 38L IIL 272. Common Cuckoo. Cuculus canorus. Selb. Illustr. L 397. Cuculus canorus. Common Cuckoo. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 154. In both sexes the upper parts hluish-f/reif, the fore part andsides of the neck ash-grey, the breast and sides of the body bluish-ichite, transversely barred icith brownish-blacl, the quills dusky-broicn, tinged externally icith grey, their inner icebs bay-red icithichite; the tail-feathers greyish-black, spotted along the shafts andon the inner tceb, and tipped with white. Young with the upperparts transversely barred icith light red and clo
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