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June 15th. 
" Sir, — In Nature Notes, Scotsman, June 4, 1910, 1 recorded an 
" instance of the young of a pair of Hedge Accentors being fed by a male 
" blackbird, which is identical with that reported by your correspondent 
" ' A. C.,' on Saturday . In my instance there were also four young birds 
" The first pair left the nest on the tenth day. in company with their parents, 
" on the eleventh day the second pair left under the charge of their foster- 
" parent, and were attended to by him for some days thereafter. It will 
" be interesting to know if the further experience of your correspondent 
" turns out to be the same as mine. 
" My blackbird, I might say. had l.)Ut one leg. 
•• I am, etc. Wm. ANDERSON." 
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THE CALLING OF THE CUCKOO. 
This year the calling of the cuckoo has Ijeen vociferous, and continued 
so right through the cuckoo season. Welcome as is the call of the "Harbinger 
of Spring," at first, it becomes very monotonous when the birds are at al! 
numerous as they were here this year. I frequently saw them two or three 
together — often, especially in early mornin.^s and evenings it was a case of : 
Cuckoos in front and rear of me; 
Cuckoos to right and left of me, 
Cuckoo"d and cuckoo'd and cuckoo'd. 
The calls continued to be very numerous up to July 5th, when I 
certainly heard two birds calling: on the ntxt da\' at noon I heard a single 
bird call on and off for some five minutes, and again in the evening I heard 
one or two calls at intervals, and I have not heard it since. 
Lingfield, July 26, 1918. VV. T. P. 
