. A dictionary of birds . Coua. (After Swainson.). 126 CUCKO IVS-LEADER—CURASSO W is found the curious form, Geococcyx (Chapparal-COCk). The generaKeomorphus, Diplopterus, Saurothera, and Fiaya (the last two com-monly called Rain-birds, from the belief that their cry portendsrain) may be noticed—all of them belonging to the NeotropicalRegion; but perhaps the most cmious form of American Cuckowsis Crotophaga (Ani), of which three species inhabit the same best-kno\^Ti species {C. ani) is found throughout the Antillesand on the opposite continent. In most of the British colonies itis k

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. A dictionary of birds . Coua. (After Swainson.). 126 CUCKO IVS-LEADER—CURASSO W is found the curious form, Geococcyx (Chapparal-COCk). The generaKeomorphus, Diplopterus, Saurothera, and Fiaya (the last two com-monly called Rain-birds, from the belief that their cry portendsrain) may be noticed—all of them belonging to the NeotropicalRegion; but perhaps the most cmious form of American Cuckowsis Crotophaga (Ani), of which three species inhabit the same best-kno\^Ti species {C. ani) is found throughout the Antillesand on the opposite continent. In most of the British colonies itis known as the Black Witch, and is accused of various malpractices—it being, in truth, a perfectly harmless if not a beneficial regards its propagation this aberrant form of Cuckow depai-ts asmuch in one direction from the normal habit of birds as do so manyof our familiar friends of the Old World in the other, for severalfemales unite to lay their eggs in one nest. Full details of itseconomy are wanting, but it is evident that incubat

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