Diederik cuckoo either "cuprea" (coppery) or "capensis" (of Cape of Good Hope). The English name is an onomatopoeic rendition of its call. Diederik cuckoo The Diederik cuckoo ("Chrysococcyx caprius"), formerly dideric cuckoo or didric cuckoo, and sometimes called Diederik's cuckoo, is a member of the cuckoo order of birds, the Cuculiformes, which also includes the roadrunners and the anis. The diederik cuckoo is a smallish cuckoo at 18 to 20 cm. Adult males are glossy green above with copper-sheened areas on the back and whitish underparts. They have a broken white eye-stripe and a short, green malar stripe. All remiges have three
Portrait of a Man, probably a Member of the Van Beresteyn Family Portrait of a Man, probably a Member of the Van Beresteyn Family Portrait of a Man, possibly a member of the Beresteyn family is a 1632 portrait painting by Rembrandt. It shows a man with a lace collar "au confusion", which was a new fashion in the 1630s replacing older-styled millstone collars. It is pendant to "Portrait of a Woman, probably a Member of the Van Beresteyn Family", and both are in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Rembrandt created this painting as a pendant to the MET's portrait of a man, probably as a wedding pendant. Only