go 



Craiginillar and its Environs. 



Duddingston to fish for perch, with which the loch 

 abounds. 



The Cuckoo visits Craigmillar, as it does most 

 parts of Scotland, its arrival being welcomed as the 



harbinger of 

 spring. In 

 1888 we 

 were inter- 

 ested to ob- 

 serve that 

 these birds 

 were e x- 

 I ceptionally 

 n umerous 

 that season, 



as many as twenty being seen flying about at one time. 

 Prompted by a desire to discover the cause of their 

 increase, we shot one, and on dissection found the 

 gizzard full of green caterpillars. As a large number 

 of gooseberry bushes in an adjoining market-garden 

 seemed blighted, we noticed on examining them 

 that the leaves were being eaten by the grubs re- 



CUCKOO FED BY A WaGXAIL. 



