Our Summer Migrants. An Account of the Migratory Birds Which Pass the Summer in the British Islands
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' 241 of the Cuckoo, which looked a much less de- veloped creature. The Cuckoo's legs, however, seemed very muscular ; and it appeared to feel about with its wings, which were absolutely featherless, as with hands, the ' spurious wing' (unusually large in proportion), looking like a spread-out thumb. The most singular thing of all was the direct purpose with which the blind little monster made for the open side of the nest, the only part where it could throw its burthen down the bank." Notwiths...tanding the objections put forward by sceptics, it is impossible, after reading the evidence of the above-named independent ob- servers, to doubt that the young Cuckoo is capable of doing all that has been attributed to it in the way of ejectment. But it is still very desirable that some competent anatomist should examine and report upon the arrangement and development of the nerves and muscles, which must differ very considerably from those which are to be found at the same age in the young of other insessorial birds, R F THE WRYNECK.
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