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and made lunges at my hand whenever I put it near 

 him. He threw his wings apart and opened his beak 

 wide in his attempt to overawe me. All the time 

 the poor foster-parents kept calling near by in a 



FULLY FLEDGED YOUNG CUCKOO RESENTING INTRUSION. 



great state of anxiety, holding in their beaks choice 

 morsels for their foster-child. 



In one case, a young Cuckoo was so fierce that it 

 used to leave its nest and run after anyone ventur- 

 ing to disturb it, and when it thought it had scared 

 the intruder off went calmlv back to its nest. 



