. Our common cuckoo and other cuckoos and parasitical birds; an attempt to reach a true theory of them by comparative study of habit and function .. . o Lying Amicably with other Young Bird . . .45 Tailpiece—Other View of Cuculus canorus 77 Cuckoos Destroying Young Birds, thatOld Ones may Build again and givechance for their Eggs . 137 Young Cuckoo in Meadow-pipits Nest . 183 Wagtail Feeding Young Cuckoo . 192 The Yellow-billed Cuckoo . . 233 Cow-birds on Cows Backs after Insects 237 The American Cow-bird . . 250 PART I. STRANGE POINTS IN LIFE HISTORY OF CUCULUS CANORUS: OUR COMMON CUCKOO. / O
. Our common cuckoo and other cuckoos and parasitical birds; an attempt to reach a true theory of them by comparative study of habit and function .. . o Lying Amicably with other Young Bird . . .45 Tailpiece—Other View of Cuculus canorus 77 Cuckoos Destroying Young Birds, thatOld Ones may Build again and givechance for their Eggs . 137 Young Cuckoo in Meadow-pipits Nest . 183 Wagtail Feeding Young Cuckoo . 192 The Yellow-billed Cuckoo . . 233 Cow-birds on Cows Backs after Insects 237 The American Cow-bird . . 250 PART I. STRANGE POINTS IN LIFE HISTORY OF CUCULUS CANORUS: OUR COMMON CUCKOO. / OUR COMMON CUCKOO AND OTHER CUCKOOS. I. BOUT no bird, which ina sense is well knownand familiar, is theremore mystery thanabout the poets, who wereimpressed by twothings about it — itsarrival almost in thefore-front of the greatarmy of migrants in theopening of spring, andits peculiar call (heardalmost everywherewhile yet the bird iscomparatively seldomseen)—have celebratedit and ideaHzed it. Wordsworth finely called it a wandering voice, and Michael Bruce, whose beauti-ful poem, like a cuckoos egg, was by Providence. 4 hife History of Coinmott Cuckoo. dropped into another birds nest—that is, found afather in the Rev. John Logan, who appropriated it,but only in the end to lose by his mean action—named it the messenger of spring. Had thesepoets known what later observation has revealedabout the cuckoo and its ways, they might have beenless effusive, though, perhaps, they would have hadtheir answer in justification ready. They would havesaid that they had to do with the impressions madeon an imaginative mind by the cuckoos note, whichrevelations of science, however adverse to the birdscharacter in certain respects, could never modify asregards the possibility of poetic impression. A laterpoet, who, it is to be presumed, knew all about thecuckoo, yet wrote thus :— The cuckoo from the wood I hear ;He has no thought to fill my ear ;And yet the sounds come swe
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