. A handbook of British birds, showing the distribution of the resident and migratory species in the British islands, with an index to the records of the rarer visitants . someparts of the country have earned for it the names of•Eve-jar and Eve-churr. Fam. CUCULIDiE. CUCKOO. Cuculus canoriis, Linna3us. PI. 17, tigs. 1,2, 2a. Length, 14 in.; wing, 85 in.; tarsus, 08 in. A summer migrant, generally distributed through-out England, Ireland, and Scotland, extending evento the Outer Hebrides. There is no well-authenticated case on recordof the Cuckoo having been heard or seen in thiscountry before
. A handbook of British birds, showing the distribution of the resident and migratory species in the British islands, with an index to the records of the rarer visitants . someparts of the country have earned for it the names of•Eve-jar and Eve-churr. Fam. CUCULIDiE. CUCKOO. Cuculus canoriis, Linna3us. PI. 17, tigs. 1,2, 2a. Length, 14 in.; wing, 85 in.; tarsus, 08 in. A summer migrant, generally distributed through-out England, Ireland, and Scotland, extending evento the Outer Hebrides. There is no well-authenticated case on recordof the Cuckoo having been heard or seen in thiscountry before the 6th of April. The average dateof its appearance for the whole of England andScotland may be given as April 23, and for thesouth of England April 15. The late Mr. Cordeaux,writing from Lincolnshire on the 15th April 1899,stated that, on looking through his notes of theprevious forty years, he found the Cuckoo seldomrecorded before the fourth week in April, that is,after the 21st. The earliest heard was on April 8. As to hatching its own e^^, see Adolf Miiller,and criticism by Walter, Zool., 1889, p. 214 (trans-lation). Instances of Cuckoos watching over their. CUCKOO 113 young have been occasionally reported (see J. , Analyst, 1839, p. 67; Briggs, Zool, 1849,p. 2603; Field, June 24, 1876 ; Feb. 17, 1877 ; July31, 1897; and May 28, 1898, the last being a par-ticularly interesting case). For an instance of aCuckoo laying in captivity, see Field, May 20, to its sucking the eggs of other birds, H. , Field, Jan. 28, 1882; Zool., 1897, p. 515;Gurney, Trans. Norf. Nat. Soc, vi. p. 373; andturning out young birds from nest, Our SummerMigrants, 1875, and Hancock, Zool., 1886, p. lists of birds in whose nests the egg of theCuckoo has been found, see Our Summer Mi-grants, 1875, p. 222; Bidwell, Trans. Norf. , iii. p. 526 ; Bladen, Trans. North Soc, 1896 ; in nest of Swallow, Zool., 1894,p. 340. Blue eggs of Cuckoo, Zool., 1880, pp. 3
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