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notes and send in same periodically so that this practical phase 
may be maintained — it might easily be increased if ALL ottr 
members wouid fall into Unc. Of course, we all prefer to yarn 
of our successes and to " say nuffin " of our failures and " all 
buts;" nevertheless it is from the latter, most frequently, that 
our most valuable experience is gained. ALL should 
co-operate. 
Correspondence. 
THE COMING OF THE CUCKOO. 
Here (Lingfield, Surrey) reports of having heard the Cuckoo began on 
March 31st, and from those too well acquainted with the bird to be entirely 
ignored. This month I have been tied pretty closely to, say a quarter mile 
radius of centre of the village, and I did not hear the " Harbinger of Spring " 
till the morning of April i6th, since when it has been heard regularly early in 
the day, for a short period about noon, and again from early evening till 
dark, and it is now one of the common avian calls of the country-side. I 
should add that the reports of the earlier dates came from those whose duties 
took them across, or lay in, the outlying districts, and the fact that from 
April i6th (when I first heard it) onward it has been calling almost vocifer- 
ously, causes one to deduce that it must have been in the district for some 
days, though unheard by me. W. T. PAGE. 
April 19th, 1920. 
