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flDv? lejpericncc vvitb IPouiuj Cuchooa. 



By J. P. Carr. 



I have, from time to time, heard of people trying 

 to rear 3'oung Cuckoos. I believe some have 

 succeeded, and others, like myself, have given 

 up the job in disgust. I will here give an 

 account of my experience with two young Cuckoos. 



A few years ago, on a beautiful day in July, I was 

 out for a stroll. My object was to see a pair of 

 Greater Spotted Woodpeckers feeding their young 

 in a certain tree in a wood. I took up my stand by 

 the trunk of a large tree, situated on the sloping bank 

 of a meadow bordering a wood, which place gave me 

 a good view of the Woodpeckers' hole. I had not 

 taken up my stand more than five minutes when my 

 attention was drawn by the call note of a pair of 

 Meadow Pipits. On looking round I saw one of the 



