. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . oder-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. Plumage soft and blended ; the f
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . oder-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. Plumage 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 nests of other and smaller birds ofvarious genera, leaving them there to be hatched, and thuscommitting their offspring to the care of strangers. Only onespecies visits this country in summer. ]00 CUCULUS CANORUS. THE GREY Cuculus canorus. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 168. Cuculus canorus. Lath. Ind. Orn. T. 207. Common Cuckoo. Mont. Orn. Diet. Coucou gris. Cuculus canorus. Temm. Man. dOrn. L 3SL IIL 272. Common Cuckoo. Cuculus canorus. Selb. Illustr. I. 397. Cuculus canorus. Common Cuckoo. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 154. In both sexes the upper parts hluish-grey, the fore part andsides of the neck ash-grey^ the breast and sides of the body bluish-ichite^ transversely barred with brownish-blacky the quills dusky-brown, tinged externally with grey^ their inner webs barred withwhite; the tail-feathers greyish-black, spotted along the shafts and071 the inner web, and tipped with white. Young with the upperparts transversely barred with light red and clove-brown, thelower
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