THE CUCKOO.
The Cuckoo only twice mentioned in Scripture—The common species, and the Great Spotted Cuckoo—Depositing the egg.
Only in two instances is the word Cuckoo found in the Authorized Version of the Bible, and as they occur in parallel passages they are practically reduced to one. In Lev. xi. 16 we find it mentioned among the birds that might not be eaten, and the same prohibition is repeated in Deut. xiv. 15, the Jews being ordered to hold the bird in abomination.