A greene forest, or A naturall historie vvherein may bee seene first the most sufferaigne vertues in all the whole kinde of stones & mettals: next of plants, as of herbes, trees, [and] shrubs, lastly of brute beastes, foules, fishes, creeping wormes [and] serpents, and that alphabetically: so that a table shall not neede. Compiled by Iohn Maplet, M. of Arte, and student in Cambridge: entending hereby yt God might especially be glorified: and the people furdered. Anno 1567.

Of the Cokow.

THe Cokow in Greke is called Kokkux, with the Germanes▪ Gauch, in the French tong Cocou, and is of ashie colour, and in bignesse as big as our Doue, building hir nest most of∣ten in the Sallowes. In the spring time she commeth abrode: and or ere Dog dayes arise she is gone and hidden. Aelianus calleth hir the wilie bird or aduouteresse, for that she most commonlye hatcheth hir yong in the Larkes Nest or Siskins, which Siskin is not much vnlike to the Goldfinch: whose yong or broode she knoweth to be bred and borne in colour & bignesse most like to hir owne, and therefore she is the bolder so to presume: whose Nestes

if she séeth good store or plentie of Egges, she destroyeth certaine of them, and in their place and number recompenseth and maketh them good with hir owne.