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course, and was placed not many yards from the bush, a juniper, in which 
that seen on Aug. 26th was built. The former, however, was on—or all 
but on—the ground among some elm-suckers, whereas the latter is three 
feet above it. I may add the locality is that in which I found a nest of the 
same bird, and afterwards a second, in 1887, as reported to you in August 
of that year (Zool. 1887, p. 803).—Henry Benson (Rector of Farncombe). 
Chough in Pembrokeshire.—On the 6th August last, Mr. Cording 
received, for preservation, a specimen of the Chough, sent to him from 
St. David’s.—Diesy S. W. Nicuoin (Cowbridge). 
Spotted Crake near Glasgow.—A young male of Porzana maruetta 
was found dead at Possil, about two miles N.W. from Glasgow, on the 1st 
September. It was still warm, and was supposed to have been killed by 
flying against a wire fence near which it was lying. It was in full 
plumage, but, from the appearance of the sexual organs, evidently a bird 
of the year. So far as I am aware, this species has not been recorded for 
the west of Scotland north of the river Clyde.—J. Macknaueat CAMPBELL 
(Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow). 
Tameness of Young Cuckoo.—During the first few days of August 
a young Cuckoo was a source of great amusement to a party of visitors at a 
house very near my own. The tennis-ground had been surrounded by 
nets kept up on stakes to prevent damage to the flowers, and the bird 
seemed to imagine that this arrangement had been made for his special 
convenience, as he was almost always to be seen perched on either the nets 
or poles. On one occasion he perched on the net while play was going on, 
and allowed the balls to pass over him several times. We could never tell 
what species of bird brought him up, as we never saw him fed by any bird, 
except on one occasion by a Wagtail, which used to bring its own family 
to feed on the lawn which the Cuckoo frequented. Two pyracanthus plants 
on the house were much infested by caterpillars, identified by Mr. Frank 
Norgate as the larva of Orgyia antiqua, and on these the Cuckoo chiefly 
fed. When perched on a stake, with wings and tail pointing down and 
head drawn in, he looked very much like a hawk; so much so that the 
Swallows would dash down at him again and again, almost brushing him 
with their wings, and uttering the sharp angry twitter with which they 
resent the appearance of a cat near their nest. My brother searched the 
remains of an old hot-bed for worms, and when these were thrown on the 
grass near the tennis-net the Cuckoo ‘ went for them” at once, and soon 
after helped himself to some froma plate. From the 4th to the 25th of 
August he was fed daily with worms, for which he came as regularly as any 
Robin for crumbs. As he grew bigger and stronger, he could manage a 
worm of three or four inches in length; in disposing of a large one he 
never used his feet to hold it, but would get one end in his bill, and swallow 
