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The Maculina rebeli is know as the cuckoo butterfly because, like the bird, it fools a different species into feeding and caring for its young— Home | Mail Online
The once-common cuckoo is among British birds in serious decline, conservationists warn today.— EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed
This inquiry I proposed to myself to make with a fern-fowl, or goat-sucker, as soon as opportunity offered: because, if their formation proves the same, the reason for incapacity in the cuckoo will be allowed to have been taken up somewhat hastily Not long after a fern-owl was procured, which, from its habit and shape, we suspected might resemble the cuckoo in its internal construction.— The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2
Even the eggs acquire, in the process of natural selection, the color of the place where they are deposited, and the cuckoo which is about to cheat a couple of another species by placing her eggs in their nest for them to hatch selects that species the color of whose eggs most closely resembles that of her own, in order to assure herself of the success of the deception.— Studies in Forensic Psychiatry
And as he watched them from the shadow by the door, the maidens stayed their grinding for a while to rest The greedy man could not bear to see even an instant's pause, and he came out of the shadow, and bade them, with harsh words, go on grinding, and cease not except for so long as the cuckoo was silent, or while he himself sang a song.— Stories to Tell Children Fifty-Four Stories With Some Suggestions For Telling

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