. The birds of Britain : their distribution and habits . Birds. Picarioe IQa searching for its food of worms and insects; the note is a soft "hoop-hoop"; the nest of a little grass Uned with dung is placed in holes in trees or walls and contains some half-a-dozen pale greenish blue Hoopoes Family CUCULID^, or Cuckoos Our familiar Cuckoo {Cueulus canorus) needs no description, though we may remark that a brownish grey bird closely barred on the hghter under surface is not unnaturally mistaken for a Hawk by the un- learned, especially when it has a similar flight. But the Cuckoo
. The birds of Britain : their distribution and habits . Birds. Picarioe IQa searching for its food of worms and insects; the note is a soft "hoop-hoop"; the nest of a little grass Uned with dung is placed in holes in trees or walls and contains some half-a-dozen pale greenish blue Hoopoes Family CUCULID^, or Cuckoos Our familiar Cuckoo {Cueulus canorus) needs no description, though we may remark that a brownish grey bird closely barred on the hghter under surface is not unnaturally mistaken for a Hawk by the un- learned, especially when it has a similar flight. But the Cuckoo is only with us from April till August, or in the case of the young till a month or two later, and. 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 Evans, A. H. (Arthur Humble). Cambridge [England] : Cambridge University Press
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