Excerpt from Our Common Cuckoo: And Other Cuckoos and Parasitical Birds, An Attempt to Reach a True Theory of Them by Comparative Study of Habit and Function, With a Thorough Criticism and Exposure of Darwin's Views and Romanes's Views and Those of Their FolowersThe reader will find as he proceeds that the single species - our cuckoos - soon leads to questions of larger interest - questions, indeed, of the highest scientific interest, in which not only birds, but many other species are more or less involved.I have to thank Dr. Bowdler Sharpe and Mr. Saunders at South Kensington for aid, and Mr. E.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.