cuckoo

Can you not hear the cuckoo call, even though the lamps may be lit and the winter wind be shrill without?

Instincts comparable with habits, but different in their origin -- Instincts graduated -- Aphides and ants -- Instincts variable -- Domestic instincts, their origin -- Natural instincts of the cuckoo, ostrich, and parasitic bees -- Slave-making ants -- Hive-bee, its cell-making instinct - - Difficulties on the theory of the Natural Selection of instincts -- Neuter or sterile insects -- Summary.

Beyond the stream was heard the cuckoo. Twice she uttered her usual cuckoo call, and then gave a hoarse, hurried call and broke down.

'Cuckoo Song,' of the thirteenth century, intended to be sung in harmony by four voices:

For years my pet aversion had been the cuckoo clock; now here I was, at last, right in the creature's home; so wherever I went that distressing "HOO'hoo!

'It's a cuckoo's, sir - I know all about it: except where he was born, and who were his parents, and how he got his money at first.

According to Azara, this bird, like the cuckoo, deposits its eggs in other birds' nests.

The cuckoo lays its egg in the strange bird's nest, and when the young one is hatched it shoulders its foster-brothers out and breaks at last the nest that has sheltered it.

turned over on his back with a sepulchral cry of 'Cuckoo!' Since then I have been ravenless.

When the little hopeful leaves peep out so fresh and green, so pure and bright, like young lives pushing shyly out into the bustling world; when the fruit-tree blossoms, pink and white, like village maidens in their Sunday frocks, hide each whitewashed cottage in a cloud of fragile splendor; and the cuckoo's note upon the breeze is wafted through the woods!

And, suddenly, while the cuckoo was sounding the half after midnight, a desperate clamour broke out in The Yellow Room.

Night long and day no stir, no sound, Only the lurking cuckoo's blood-stained note, The gibbon's mournful wail.