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young Cuckoo bad thrown this one out is almost certain, though 

 no one saw it done. At 11.30 a.m. Mr. Gerard Gurney put back 

 the nestling Wagtail, which was still alive, into the nest, and 

 reported events as follows : — After ten minutes the young Cuckoo 

 began to get restless and to fidget, and soon tried to expel the 

 little Wagtail, working round and round the inside of the nest 

 by an active use of both legs and wings, but all its efforts were 

 unavailing, and it did not get the Wagtail out. The young 

 Cuckoo took repeated rests, even for as much as ten minutes at 

 a time, lying quite still with the Wagtail resting on its back, 

 but if the latter slipped a little the Cuckoo would move. The 

 young Wagtail had not been ejected up to 3 p.m., but at 

 4.30 p.m. it was again outside the nest, lying exactly where my 

 son had found it in the morning. I am inclined to attribute its 

 expulsion to the parent Wagtails, as the young Cuckoo was 

 exhausted. 



June. 



1st. — Under this date Mr. Bird sends me a curious instance 

 of a Brown Owl and a Kestrel having laid their eggs in opposite 

 sides of an old Pigeon-locker, which had been erected on a tree 

 in a Horsey osier-ground. 



3rd. — A nestling Hawfinch! picked up at Keswick, but, 

 although it seemed impossible that it could have flown many 

 yards, search failed to discover the nest. 



18th. — Mr. Cresswell informs me of a Flamingo being seen 

 at Wolterton Creek, in the Wash, possibly one from the Zoolo- 

 gical Gardens, the escape of which was announced in April 

 (R. Pocock). A London newspaper also published the shooting 

 of one on Mersea Island, Essex, in September, and Mr. Louis 

 Ternier saw one on Nov. 30th in the bay of the Seine, which is 

 opposite the Isle of Wight. It is difficult to say where they may 

 have all come from ; the Duchess of Bedford has not lost any 

 lately, but other people may have done so. Mr. Ternier heard 

 of another killed in Vendee about November (' Revue Fr. d'Orni- 

 thologie,' 1910, p. 153). Mr. W. A. Harding, who keeps Flam- 

 ingos, lost two in 1906 and one in 1907, but none in 1909. 

 There seems no reason why it should not visit us sometimes as 

 a migrant, being not uncommon in the South of France, where 

 I have seen it. 



