Common cuckoo Common cuckoo The common cuckoo ("Cuculus canorus") is a member of the cuckoo order of birds, "Cuculiformes", which includes the roadrunners, the anis and the coucals. This species is a widespread summer migrant to Europe and Asia, and winters in Africa. It is a brood parasite, which means it lays eggs in the nests of other bird species, particularly of dunnocks, meadow pipits, and reed warblers. Although its eggs are larger than those of its hosts, the eggs in each type of host nest resemble the host's eggs. The adult too is a mimic, in its case of the sparrowhawk;
Portrait of a Man, probably a Member of the Van Beresteyn Family in a line with the elbow, "RH L van Ryn 1632 " ; canvas, 44 1/2 inches by 35 1/2 inches. Mentioned by Dutuit, p. 53 ; Michel, p. 119 [91, 443] ; Moes, 512. In the collection of the Beresteyn family, Chateau Maurik, Vucht, 1884. In the collection of the late H. O. Havemeyer, New York." The painting was included in most Rembrandt catalogs of the 20th-century along with its pendant, "Portrait of a Woman, probably a Member of the Van Beresteyn Family", which has recently been disputed as autograph. The pendant is, however, still connected with Rembrandt's workshop