KOEKKOEK, k(ToVIHTok, BAREND CORNELIS (1803-62). A Dutch landscape painter. He was born at Middelburg, Holland, October 11, 1803. He studied under his father, Jan Hermann Kock koek (1778-1851), a marine painter, and at the Amsterdam Academy under Sehelfhout and Van Gos. He was much influenced by the great mas ters of the Harbison school. whom he knew per sonally in Paris. His paintings show good tech nique, and are harmonious in color. He took gold medals at Amsterdam in 1840, at the Paris Exposition in 1855, and at The Hague, and was the recipient of several orders, including the Legion of Honor. In 1841 he removed to Cleves, in Rhenish Prussia, where he founded an acad emy of design, and died April 5, 1862. There are good examples of his landscapes in the mu seums of Amsterdam. Rotterdam, Antwerp, Ber lin. Karlsruhe, and South Kensington (London), and also in the Metropolitan Museum. New York, and several private collections of the United States.
KOEL (Hind. •oyal, kok la, Priik. kOela, Slat. kf1kila, cuckoo; onomatopoetic in origin). A
cuckoo of the genus Eudynamis. Four species arc known, two in the East Indian region, and two in Australasia. They are cuckoo-like in form, but rather stout, and are remarkable for a sexual difference in coloration, the male being glossy black, and the female rufous, with black bands. Still more unusual is the fact that the young reemble the males in plumage and not the females. The koels are parasitic, depositing their eggs singly in the nests of other birds, as do several other members of the family (see CtrKoo), but seem to look after their offspring to a certain extent, for they have been seen feed ing them after they have left the nest of the foster-parents. One species (Eudynamis hono rata) is numerous and familiar in India, where it is known as 'rain-bird.' A eommon species of the Philippines (Eudynamis indanensis) is there called 'pilaw.' The blue-headed koel (Rudy ?minis cyanacephula) is a native of Australia. See Plate of CuoKoos.