Editing Common cuckoo (section)

==Taxonomy==
The species' [[binomial name]] is derived from the [[Latin language|Latin]] {{lang|la|cuculus}} (the cuckoo) and {{lang|la|canorus}} (melodious; from {{lang|la|canere}}, meaning "to sing").<ref name="bto">{{cite web |last=Robinson |first=R. A. |year=2005 |title=Cuckoo ''Cuculus canorus'' |url=http://blx1.bto.org/birdfacts/results/bob7240.htm |work=BirdFacts: Profiles of Birds Occurring in Britain & Ireland |publisher=[[British Trust for Ornithology]] |id=BTO Research Report 407 |access-date=12 August 2011}}</ref><ref name=job>{{cite book | last= Jobling | first= James A. | year= 2010| title= The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | url= https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling | publisher= Christopher Helm | location = London | isbn = 978-1-4081-2501-4 | pages =89, 124}}</ref> The cuckoo family gets its common name and [[Binomial nomenclature|genus name]] by [[onomatopoeia]] for the call of the male common cuckoo.<ref name=BWP>{{cite book |last1=Snow |first1=D. W. |last2=Perrins |first2=C. |title=The Birds of the Western Palearctic |edition=Abridged |year=1997 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |isbn=978-0-19-854099-1}}</ref> The [[English language|English]] word "cuckoo" comes from the [[Old French]] {{lang|fro|cucu}}, and its earliest recorded usage in English is from around 1240, in the song {{lang|enm|[[Sumer Is Icumen In]]}}. The song is written in [[Middle English]], and the first two lines are {{lang|enm|"Svmer is icumen in / Lhude sing cuccu."}} In modern [[English language|English]], this translates to "Summer has come in / Loudly sing, Cuckoo!".<ref name=OED>{{Cite OED |Cuckoo }}</ref>

There are four subspecies worldwide:<ref name="ibc">{{cite web |title=Common Cuckoo (''Cuculus canorus'') |work=Internet Bird Collection |url=http://ibc.lynxeds.com/species/common-cuckoo-cuculus-canorus |publisher=[[Lynx Edicions]] |access-date=20 August 2011}}</ref>
* ''C. c. canorus'', the nominate subspecies, was first described by [[Carl Linnaeus]] in his landmark 1758 [[10th edition of Systema Naturae|10th edition of ''Systema Naturae'']]. It occurs from [[Ireland]] through [[Scandinavia]], northern [[Russia]] and [[Siberia]] to [[Japan]] in the east, and from the [[Pyrenees]] through [[Turkey]], [[Kazakhstan]], [[Mongolia]], northern [[China]] and [[Korea]]. It winters in Africa and South Asia.
* ''C. c. bakeri'', first described by [[Ernst Hartert|Hartert]] in 1912, breeds in western China to the [[Himalaya]]n foothills in northern [[India]], [[Nepal]], [[Myanmar]], northwestern [[Thailand]] and southern China. During the winter it is found in [[Assam]], [[East Bengal]] and southeastern Asia.
* ''C. c. bangsi'' was first described by [[Harry Church Oberholser|Oberholser]] in 1919 and breeds in [[Iberia]], the [[Balearic Islands]] and North Africa, spending the winter in Africa.
* ''C. c. subtelephonus'', first described by [[Nikolai Zarudny|Zarudny]] in 1914, breeds in Central Asia from [[Turkestan]] to southern [[Mongolia]]. It migrates to southern Asia and Africa for the winter.