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THE SECOND SEASON (1919) 
and alone in a Meadow Pipit’s nest within a hundred 
yards of the spot where I had passed the night for 
the express purpose of seeing the deposition. 
On June 21 I found A 11 in a Meadow Pipit’s 
nest, with two eggs, well concealed in gorse. This 
nest was being built on the 17th. On the same 
afternoon Simmonds found another Meadow Pipit’s 
nest containing A 12 in the shape of a naked young 
Cuckoo. Outside the nest were two young Meadow 
Pipits which had obviously been dead only a few 
hours. This nest was in exactly the same spot 
whence a Cuckoo had been seen to fly almost three 
weeks previously. 
The 22nd yielded A 13 and two fresh Meadow 
Pipit’s eggs in a nest in a small hole not far from 
where the young Cuckoo last year was reared in a 
nest in a hole. These eggs appeared deserted when 
found, as the nest was quite wet and the eggs damp, 
although there had been no rain for many hours. 
I was determined to find this nest because eight 
days previously I had seen twice in a quarter of an 
hour the hen bird carrying nesting material, and 
had subsequently spent much time fruitlessly 
searching. Later in the day I flushed another 
Meadow Pipit from a nest in short gorse growing 
through old burnt sticks. This contained A 14 and 
