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 CHAPTER IX.

THE CUCKOOS.

is properly the name of a particular migratory bird,

which spends the spring and summer in Europe and the winter in warmer latitudes (India, for example), and is notorious for shirking its parental responsibilities and foisting its offspring upon other birds to bring up. But the name is applied to Pied Crested Cuckoo. a whole group of birds which resemble the European Cuckoo in structure and have the same disreputable habit. There are many species of the family in India,