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The Gaelic Names of Birds. 55
••A cliuiuliag nan oraobh nacli truagh leat mo chaoidh
'8 mi a g' osiiaich ri oidhclie ceodhair."
O cuckoo oil the tree, won't you lament with me,
And join in my giief, on a misty eve.
And in another okl song we have a mountain dairymaid likened to
the cuckoo of the w-ildeniess
"A bhanarach dhonn a' chruidh,
Chaoin a' chruidh, dhonn a chruidli
Cailin deas, donn a chruidh
Cuachag an fhasaich."
Group IV.— Fissirostres. Famiiy I.—Meropidoi.
Latin
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ROLLKR.
Caracias i/arrnla. Gaelic
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Family IL—Halcyonidie.
KING-FISHER.
Cuairsgean.
Latin A Iccdo ispulu. Gaelic Biorra-cruidtin, Biona-an-t-iasgair
(Alex. Macdonald), Gobhachan-iiisge {Alex. Macdonald). Welsh—