Front:
CUCKOO.
aguanette
Back:
Series II.
[Regd.] Postcard 9399.
DROM
CARTE POSTALE.
POSTKARTE.
ARTISTIC
By Appointment.
“ BRITISH BIRDS AND THEIR EGGS."
The Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus). The Cuckoo, which
is one of the most interesting of our birds, arrives in April
and leaves in August, though the young ones linger on till
the middle of September. It is a handsome bird, about
the size of the sparrow hawk. Besides its peculiar cry,
which is the herald of spring, the Cuckoo is remarkable
on account of its building no nest for itself, but leaving the
rearing of its young to other birds. It lays its egg on the
ground, and then carries it in its beak and places it in
the nest of the meadow pipit, hedge sparrow, pied wag-
tail, wren, finch, or any other small bird. The eggs are
laid at intervals of about a week, and vary much in colour,
and no two eggs are placed in the same nest.
ART PUBLISHERS TO THEIR MAJESTIES THE KING & QUEEN.
Raphael Tuck & Sons' "AQUARETTE"
