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Definition of Cuckoos
1. cuckoo [v] - See also: cuckoo
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cuckoos
Literary usage of Cuckoos
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America: With Keys to the Species and by Frank Michler Chapman (1895)
"Only thirty-five of the some one hundred and seventy-five known species of cuckoos
are found in the New World, and they are largely confined to the tropics. ..."
2. Report on the Birds of Pennsylvania: With Special Reference to the Food by Benjamin Harry Warren (1890)
"THE cuckoos. Two species of this family are found in Pennsylvania as summer
residents. These, the Black and Yellow-billed cuckoos, can be recognized by the ..."
3. Michigan Bird Life: A List of All the Bird Species Known to Occur in the by Walter Bradford Barrows (1912)
"cuckoos. (Only two Michigan species). AA. Toes three in front and one behind,
... proper season you may see or hear cuckoos 'almost any day . ..."
4. The Cornhill Magazine by George Smith (1908)
"Using size as a test of blood-relation, it has been ascertained that differences
do exist marking out tree- pipit-cuckoos, meadow-pipit-cuckoos, ..."
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