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tally swallowed, but the Cuckoo is no respecter 

 of persons in more than one way, and bolts the 

 Woolly Bear with apparent ease and relish. What 

 a voracious appetite the young Cuckoo possesses! 

 It is an interesting sight to watch a pair of small 

 birds feeding a young Cuckoo, and if one's know- 

 ledge of the insect life of a district is of an elemen- 

 tary character, one has only to watch carefully 

 the many different varieties of larvae brought to a 

 young Cuckoo by the foster-parents to have ocular 

 demonstration as to the insect life of the district 

 in which the young Cuckoo happens to be hatched. 



During a hail storm in the early Summer (so- 

 called rather than real) it was most amusing to 

 see the young Pheasants in the park running 

 about and picking up hail stones! In no case 

 did the stones appear to be swallowed. The 

 youngsters evinced keen delight in picking them 

 up, but dropped them on finding how icy cold 

 they were ! 



It is wonderful the patience which some fowls 

 possess in hatching Pheasants' eggs, and one 

 particular hen I had under observation brought 

 off no less than over eighty young Pheasants! 

 This is, indeed, a record of which any mother — 

 feathered or otherwise — might be proud. Curious 

 to relate, this hen would not under any circum- 

 stances take to a brood of young Pheasants in the 

 coop. She was tried with a brood in this position 



