Cuckoos [noun]

In Guernsey, however, Cuckoos are much too numerous for the Hedgesparrow to afford accommodation for them all.

The swallows, nightingales, and cuckoos were a fortnight after their usual time.

Several times cuckoos have flown over this house, but just clearing the roof, and descending directly they were over to the copse.

Cuckoos are supposed to winter in Africa, as they are seen twice a year in the island of Malta.

The third of the cuckoos which enlivens the hot weather in the plains is the Indian cuckoo (Cuculus micropterus).

Some flocks, however, are still accompanied by impedimenta in the shape of young babblers or pied crested-cuckoos.

But I never said that the modern villagers delighted in being called Mice or Cuckoos!

Cuckoos are of quiet and retiring habits, but on account of their mournful notes are often regarded with awe by the superstitious.

Rhinortha, rī-nor′tha, n. a genus of cuckoos: a genus of hemipterous insects.

How the cuckoos sang that summer; a note never heard in Italy.