Scolds

cheating bakers: or brewers, and other petty offenders ee ce el were placed in it, usually at their own doors, to be hooted at and pelted by the mob. It has been frequently confounded with the ducking-stool, Cuckoo (genus Cuculus), a scansorial or climbing bird, the type of the family Cuculidse. The note from which it derives its name is a love-call used only in the mating season, Most of the species are confined to hot countries, more especially India and Africa, though some are summer visitants of colder climates. In America the cuck- 00s are represented by three sub-families: the anis, the road-runners, and the tree-cuckoo; they build their own nests, not like the Huropean cuckoos, which place their eggs in the nests of other birds.