. History of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . in here in a torpid flate we have already hadoccafion to obferve ;* but this cannot be the cafewith the greater part of thofe which leave this coun-try and retire to milder climates, to avoid the ri-gours of winter. BufFon mentions feveral inflancesof young Cuckoos having been kept in cages, which,probably for want of proper nutriment, did not fur-vive the winter. We knew of one which was prefer-ved through the winter by being fed with worms,infefts, foaked bread, and fmall pieces of flefli. Theplumage of the Cuckoo varies greatly at
. History of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . in here in a torpid flate we have already hadoccafion to obferve ;* but this cannot be the cafewith the greater part of thofe which leave this coun-try and retire to milder climates, to avoid the ri-gours of winter. BufFon mentions feveral inflancesof young Cuckoos having been kept in cages, which,probably for want of proper nutriment, did not fur-vive the winter. We knew of one which was prefer-ved through the winter by being fed with worms,infefts, foaked bread, and fmall pieces of flefli. Theplumage of the Cuckoo varies greatly at different * Sec the introduftion. no BRITISH BIRDS. periods of its life. In young Cuckoos the bill,legs, and tail are nearly the fame as in the oldones ; the eye is blue; the throat, neck, breaft,and belly are elegantly barred with a dark brownon a light ground; the back is of a lead colour,mixed with brown, and faintly barred with white ;the tail feathers are irregularly marked with black,light brown, and white, and tipped with white; itslegs are BRITISH BIRDS, III
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