CUCKOO (Cuculus canorus), a well
known bird. The head and upper parts
are of dark ash, the throat, the under
side of the neck and fore part of the
breast of a paler ash or brown, the rest
of the breast and the belly white, with
transverse undulating black lines, the
quill feathers with white on their inner
webs, the tail ash, white, and black
commingled, feet yellow; length, 14 inches.
The cuckoo forces foster-parentage on
other species of birds.
