Genre:

Reportage, Satire

Relevant illustrations:

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Subjects:

Ornithology

    Reports on James S Buckingham's British and Foreign Institute lecture on the nest-building art of birds. Argues that just as cuckoos build their nests from the wool, hay, straw, and sticks gathered by other birds, so a human 'might plump himself into a comfortable nest, having had lords and gentry to lay it for him'. The illustration depicts a crest putatively granted by Queen Victoria to Buckingham. It shows a cuckoo saluting with one of its legs and the motto reads: 'So much for Buckingham'.