498 THE CUCKOO 



where it is stated that a nest of the white-wagtail was found with 

 three cuckoo's eggs and two of the foster-parent in the Reitzenstein 

 Forest near Landsberg, Germany. Most extraordinary of all is the 

 statement of Herr Otmar Reiser (Jahresbericht Com. fur orn. JSeobacht. 

 Btationen, 1884, p. 82), that a forester near Landskron in Bohemia 

 discovered four fledged cuckoos together in a hole of a tree, which 

 were being fed by redstarts ! In this case the young were unable to 

 leave the nest owing to the narrow entrance to the hole. 



