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The Hoopoe is included in Professor Ansted's list, 

 but only marked as occurring in Guernsey and Sark. 

 There are now only two specimens in the Museum, 

 and these have no note of date or locality, but a few 

 years ago there were several more, and one or two 

 I remember were marked as having been killed in 

 the spring ; the rest were probably autumnal 

 specimens. 



84. CUCKOO. Cuculus canorus, Linnaeus. French, 

 " Coucou gris." The Cuckoo is one of the com- 

 monest and most numerous summer visitants to 

 the Islands, and is generally spread over all of them ; 

 it arrives about the same time that it does in 

 England, that is to say, about the middle of April. I 

 know earlier instances even as early as February 

 have been recorded, but these must have been 

 recorded in consequence of some mistake, probably 

 some particularly successful imitation of the note. 

 Mr. MacCulloch seems to think that the time of 

 their arrival is very regular, as he writes to me to 

 say, " The Cuckoo generally arrives here about the 

 15th of April ; sometimes as early as the 13th, as 

 was the case this year (1878) ; the first are generally 

 reported from the cliffs at St. Martin's, near Moulin 

 Huet, the first land they would make on their 

 arrival from Brittany. ' ' Very soon after their arrival, 

 however, they spread over the whole Island 

 of Guernsey, as well as all the other neighbouring 



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