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  1. The cuckoo of the poem is in fact a hototogisu 
  2. or Little Cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus),a bird 
  3. often mentioned in Japanese poetry. The cry is 
  4. very different from that of the ordinary cuckoo. 
  5. The bird was sometimes considered a messenger 
  6. from the other-world, and a harbinger of death.