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4th. — There are now four Wagtail's eggs. 



5th.— There are five Wagtail's eggs. 



6th. — Female Cuckoo heard about fifty yards from the nest 

 at 10.30 a.m. 



7th.— Female Cuckoo heard at 4.30 p.m. 



8th. — Nothing to record. 



9th. — Early this morning we found that two of the Wag- 

 tail's eggs had been removed from the nest ; they were gone at 

 8.45 a.m., there being then left in the nest three Wagtail's eggs 

 and the Cuckoo's egg. Nothing was seen or heard of the female 

 Cuckoo, but the coachman, once at least, detected the cry of the 

 male " cuckooing " on the beech-tree near ; whether he was the 

 robber or whether the female Cuckoo took the eggs it is im- 

 possible to say. At any rate, one of the eggs was not carried 

 far away, for I found half its shell, yolkless and neatly divided, 

 suspended in the ivy some two feet below the Wagtail's nest. 



10th. — At 12.45 a.m. the female Cuckoo was calling about a 

 hundred yards from the nest. 



11th. — The Cuckoo not heard. 



12th. — The Cuckoo was on the beech-tree once at least. 



13th, 14th, 15th. — The Cuckoo not heard, and on the 15th I 

 had to leave home. 



16th. — Mr. Gerard Gurney found one of the Wagtail's eggs 

 hatched, but the other eggs not sprung ; it had been hatched 

 between 7.30 a.m. and 5.30 p.m. A Cuckoo flew over the wall 

 in the morning. 



17th. — At 6.30 a.m. the coachman found that the Cuckoo's 

 egg was hatched, and that a second Wagtail's egg had been 

 hatched also. As this Cuckoo's egg was laid on June 3rd its in- 

 cubation is proved to have been fourteen days. At 6.30 p.m. 

 the third Wagtail's egg was also hatched. 



18th. — Looking at 6.30 a.m. the coachman found that one of 

 the nestling Wagtails had been cast out of the nest, the age of 

 the young Cuckoo — which may or may not have done the work 

 of ejectment — being then twenty-four hours. At 9.30 a.m. a 

 second Wagtail was lying outside; both were dead, but it is 

 certain they had not been dead long, for their bodies were not 

 yet cold. At 11 o'clock the third Wagtail had been cast out, and 

 was lying about an inch from the nest, and still alive. That the 



