THIRD SEASON (1920): RECORD 81 
to deposit her egg on that side, i.e. the south-west. 
Consequently, at 2.45 we all five from different 
points concentrated upon the Cuckoo and the 
particular pear tree, experience having at last 
taught us that once she had settled down to a 
motionless state it was for the definite purpose of 
victimising then or later some intended fosterer. 
Only a Linnet’s nest with four eggs was known of 
in sight of the Cuckoo, though it was thought to be 
just possible that No. 8 pair of Meadow Pipits had 
a nest with an egg or two, since they had escaped any 
very definite observation on our part. 
The Cuckoo remained motionless in the top 
of the pear tree (C) for nearly 2\ hours. Just 
after 4.30 she floated out of the tree, glided down to 
a point about forty yards distant, and returned 
immediately without alighting. No. 8 pair of 
Pipits accompanied her and, with other birds, also 
followed her in a restless flight from the pear tree 
through the orchard and once or twice round the 
trees again. 
Within five minutes of her original flight she 
once again floated from the pear tree down to the 
same spot as before. She was again accompanied 
by the Meadow Pipits and, alighting for not more 
than thirty seconds, she laid her sixteenth egg in 
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