The first ring, and the second ring, was now but a trick of the prompter's bellwhich had been, like the note of the cuckoo, a phantom of a voice, no hand seen or guessed at which ministered to its warning.

Some comment of mine upon a specimen of that dismal songster, the cuckoo clock, which stood on his mantel, had started him into one of his learned expositions.

"The first cuckoo clock, as you are doubtless aware, sir"he was always scrupulous to assume knowledge on the part of his hearer, no matter how abstruse or technical the subject; it was a phase of his inherent courtesy"was intended to represent not the cuckoo, but the blackbird.

"The first cuckoo clock, as you are doubtless aware, sir"he was always scrupulous to assume knowledge on the part of his hearer, no matter how abstruse or technical the subject; it was a phase of his inherent courtesy"was intended to represent not the cuckoo, but the blackbird.

"When the cuckoo sounded," continued the collector without the slightest change of intonation, "she used to imitate it to puzzle Willy Woolly.

A pretty cuckoo.

A cheap and somewhat dilapidated cuckoo-clock and toy velocipede flank the famous globe of the world in diamonds and precious stones.

Where the soft winds blow and the gum trees grow As far as the eye can see, Where the magpie chaffs and the cuckoo-burra laughs Australia is the land for me!

France acknowledged him; the sacred cuckoo flew from spire to spire; and all the people cried, "Long live the Emperor!"

An or a before the genus, may refer to a whole species; and the before the species, may denote that whole species emphatically: as, "A certain bird is termed the cuckoo, from the sound which it emits.

The cuckoo calls.

Two studies: Child and cuckoo, op.107, no.12 and Dragonflies in sunshine, op.107, no.13.

Jerry Todd's cuckoo camp.

Jerry Todd's cuckoo camp.

R115575, 6Aug53, Arthur S. Pederson (Wr) The cuckoo-clock shop.

At that moment Mrs. Finnegan's cuckoo clock, sounding distinctly through the thin flooring, warbled twice with a voice of friendly betrayal.

I'm sure that it is a Woodpecker!" "Wrong againit is a Cuckoo; the Yellow-billed one, I think, for the voice is louder and harsher than that of his Black-billed brother.

" [Illustration: Yellow-Billed Cuckoo.]

But this bird didn't say 'cuckoo'; it only cackled something like a Hen when she is tired of sitting.

" "The clock Cuckoo is an imitation of the merry, heedless English bird, who lays her eggs in the wrong nests, as our Cowbird does.

The Yellow-billed Cuckoo is quite different, being long, slender, and graceful, and a very patient parenteven though the nest she builds is rather a poor thing, made of a few twigs piled so loosely in a bush that the pale-green eggs sometimes drop out.

" The Yellow-billed Cuckoo Length about twelve inches.

Upper parts a pretty Quaker color, like the Cuckoo's, but with many fine curved black lines; tail regularly barred with black and white.

Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccy'zus america'nus.

Johnnie, who had climbed up a tall poplar tree, and was shaking it portentously, began to let himself down apparently at the peril of his life, and the girls at the same moment coming out of the house, welcomed Emily, letting her know that their father had given them a large, lovely cuckoo clock to hangup in Parliament.