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Cuckoo
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The A. V. rendering of 
(shaḥaf) in Leviticus 11:16 and Deuteronomy 14:15. In both places it occurs in the list of unclean birds. This identification, however, is only a conjecture, and there is no certain tradition to support it. The Targum transcribes the Hebrew word. The Septuagint gives λάρος ("sea-gull"). The R. V. rendering is "seamew," which is accepted by Gesenius, Bertholet, and Driver in their commentaries, and by Baentsch and Lewyson ("Zoologie des Talmuds," p. 182). The cuckoo, however, is found in Palestine, where it passes the summer. Two varieties are met with—the common and the spotted cuckoo.
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Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Cuckoo'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tje/c/cuckoo.html. 1901.
Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Cuckoo'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tje/c/cuckoo.html. 1901.
