THIRD SEASON (1920): RECORD 83 
pair, whose nest was victimised five days later. 
She remained in the ash for half an hour, returning 
to the centre orchard just after 3 p.m. Between 
that time and 5.30 p.m. she made occasional short 
flights into the forest, always coming back after a 
short interval into the favourite centre orchard, 
into which she was more than once chased by a 
male Cuckoo. 
It had been observed that, during the afternoons 
on which the Cuckoo laid, the male birds seldom 
molested her, although often perching in, and 
“ cuckoo ”-ing from, neighbouring and adjoining 
trees to the one in which she was sitting. 
On June 14, at 11.30 a.m., an entirely different 
Cuckoo’s egg was found in the nest of No. 8 pair 
victimised two days previously on the occasion of 
the laying of the sixteenth egg by Cuckoo A. 
Comment upon this interesting point is made in 
Chapter XII, p. 187, under Cuckoo F. 
Both at 2.30 and 3.10 p.m. the bubbling note 
of a female Cuckoo was heard from the north-east 
direction, and at 4 p.m. she flew across the common 
just prior to a tremendous thunderstorm which 
lasted until 5.30 p.m. As nothing further was 
seen or heard of her the watch was abandoned at 
6.30, it being decided that Cuckoo A had not laid 
