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affectionate memory, and long feel the sense of personal loss. 
Aviculture has lost another of its serious workers, only one- 
of many which the war has claimed, and F.B.C. and its- 
Journal, a valued member and contributor. — W.T.P. 
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Correspondence. 
HAVE CUCKOOS THE HOMING INSTINCT ? 
Sir, — The recent correspondence on Cuckoos has brought to niy niinj 
an incident I intended to bring to your notice. Two years ago, close to the 
town in which I reside I heard a cuckoo with a most pronouced " cracked 
voice," I heard it so frequeritly and its voice was so pecuhar tiiat 1 could have 
recognised it again anywhere. I did not trouble much about it but jiut it 
down to the vo.-ce " going out of tune " as it is supposed to do. But I heard it 
again last year at the same place and this year he has turned up again with the 
same ludicrou- crack in its call. This year I heard it first at the beginning of 
May so ;t co.ild noi iiave been the time for the voice to fail. Moreover, the 
note was so peculiar that I have no doubt whatever it is the same individual 
bird I have heard each year It would seem from this that Cuckoos return to 
the same nesting place year after year. Perhaps this has been noticed by other 
members, but I thought it might add a little evidence on the subject. 
Asnbourne, Derbyshire. J. H. HENSTOCK. 
