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are to be seen on Breydon; but other causes than 

 preservation must be blamed for this falling off, 

 although the fact gives rise to no small cynicism 

 and sarcasm amongst those who feel aggrieved at 

 not being allowed to shoot the few that even to- 

 day put in an appearance. 



YOUNG CUCKOOS 



In this locality the Meadow Pipit, in my ex- 

 perience, is the most favoured (?) foster-parent of 

 the young Cuckoo : in almost every instance where 

 I have met with a fledgling it has been in the 

 lowly built nest of this species. The young Cuckoo 

 grows very rapidly, and seems to be not only an 

 exceedingly hungry, quarrelsome creature, but very 

 easy to rear. On one occasion I obtained one 

 from under a gravestone out of a Pipit's nest, and 

 brought it up to full feather simply on a diet of 

 bullock's lights. 



In a cabbage garden the caterpillar of the garden 

 white butterfly was committing woeful havoc, and 

 the owner despaired of cutting any fit for cooking. 

 In the midst of his grumbling, a young Cuckoo of 

 the year appeared, and commenced to wage war 



