_Welsh Ambassador._--The origin of the word "Welsh," from the Saxon
"Wealh," a stranger, and the use of it in this sense by our old writers
(see Brady's _Introd._, p. 5.: Sir T. Smith's _Commonwealth of England_,
chap. xiii.), sufficiently explain this designation of the Cuckoo, the
temporary resident of our cold climate, and the ambassador
_extraordinary_ in the revolutions of the seasons, in the words of the
Nursery Rhymes,--
"She comes as a _stranger_, and stays three months in the year."
"Quid tibi vis aliud dicam? me _vox mea prodit_."
_Alciati, Emblema_ lx. _Cuculi, Comment_.