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Stories about birds of land and water (1874)

Kirby, Mary, 1817-1893, Kirby, Elizabeth, 1823-1873 · Hartford [Conn.] : American Publishing Co. · leaf 154

An illustration from Stories about birds of land and water, 1874, leaf 154 — e know that summer is near.His song has no great variety in it. It is but a repetition of the well-knownword, cuckoo ! cuckoo ! but perhaps no other note gives us more pleasure,. THE CUCKOO. 151 He is the lowest of his tribe as regards his chmbing powers. Nor doeshe use his bill in the least, like… … THE JAY CUCKOO. the stem. The cuckoo is, in fact, half a climber and half a percher, andit seems rather foolish to have put him among the climbers at all. His bill is of a moderate length, and a little curved at the end. Hiswings are short and his flight is feeble. Nor does he, in his native woods,…

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