THE SECOND SEASON (1919) 29 
July 5 saw the discovery of A 18 in a Meadow 
Pipit's nest with four eggs in a tuft of grass. All 
the eggs were near hatching. This nest was close 
to the persistent perching ground of the male 
Pipit, who throughout the season had been almost 
incessantly singing whenever I was on the common. 
I had wrongly concluded that I had found the nest 
of this bird thirteen days before at some little 
distance away, and was only led to hunt for the 
nest this afternoon by seeing both birds fussing 
about suspiciously. After watching them for a few 
minutes, I saw the male get up and fly away, 
satisfying me that the female had gone to the nest. 
Beginning to beat the gorse, I soon flushed her 
from her nest within ten yards of where she had 
last been seen. 
To-day, July 5, was also noteworthy in that it 
provided the best of all evidence of the return of 
Cuckoo B. On June 29 I had found a Meadow 
Pipit's nest with two eggs, and at 8 p.m. that day, 
just as I was leaving the common, I saw a Cuckoo, 
chased by a Pipit, fly off from just beside this nest. 
I was surprised, as by that time I had made up my 
mind that the Cuckoo I had been studying had 
finished laying. The next morning, June 30, at 
9.15, the nest contained three eggs of the Pipit. 
