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1895, and I think that the three eggs were laid by the same Cuckoo, though 

 I am not so sure about the identity of the Wagtail. On June 27th I had a 

 fresh Cuckoo's egg with a clutch of four Yellow Bunting, and the following 

 day a second was taken, also fresh, with two Yellow Bunting ; these two are 

 undoubtedly the eggs of the same Cuckoo. The egg from a sham nest is 

 interesting in its way ; last year I put up a Greenfinch's nest in my garden 

 here and got a Cuckoo's egg from it, and this year my brother successfully 

 tried the same experiment. He put up a Hedge Sparrow's nest with two or 

 three House Sparrow's eggs in a fruit tree on a sunny wall ; the Cuckoo 

 turned out the eggs and left her own in the nest. This egg, again, is so 

 exactly like the one I obtained in a similar manner last year that I have been 

 obliged to put a distinguishing mark on them. Of the twenty eggs obtained 

 this year, there was only one about which there could be the least doubt, a 

 very Sparrow-like egg brought me with the eggs of the Greenfinch, but, 

 when put to the test of blowing, it proved to be all right. One of my 

 friends has more than once had two Cuckoo's eggs from the same nest, 

 having this year obtained a Pied Wagtail's nest with two eggs of each bird, 

 but this prize has never yet come in my way, and if I ventured to make it 

 known that such a thing was of special value or interest, it might possibly 

 be "made to order." Perhaps it may save needless correspondence if I 

 add that I am not parting with any of my Cuckoo's eggs. — Julian G. Tuck 

 (Tostock Rectory, Bury St. Edmund's). 



Teal Nesting in Worcestershire. — It may interest some of your readers 

 to know that on June 11th I saw here a Teal's nest containing ten eggs, 

 much incubated. Four years ago a brood of eight were hatched out in the- 

 same neighbourhood. — K. A. Deakin (Cofton Hackett, Worcestershire). 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



At the time of his death Mr. Seebohm had almost completed his exhaus- 

 tive monograph on the "Family of Thrushes." We understand that Dr. 

 Bowdler Sharpe undertook to finish the work, and that it will shortly be pub- 

 lished by Messrs. Henry Sotheran & Co. It will be illustrated with nearly 

 150 coloured plates, and the edition will be limited to 250 copies. 



As the editor of this magazine is at work upon a dictionary of trivial and 

 provincial names of the birds on the British list (with their origin or meaning, 

 and notes on the folk-lore of many species), he will be very glad if readers 

 will send him lists of the less-familiar local or dialect bird-names used in 

 their districts, with any comments thereon. He is particularly in want of 



