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The Bird Of Passage Known To Us As The Cuckoo. -- Pliny The Elder (23-79 AD) -- Natural History, Book Xviii, Sect.
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The bird of passage known to us as the cuckoo.
-- Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD)
-- Natural History, Book xviii, Sect. 249
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