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fortunately did not find the nest. Perhaps it will 
be remembered that the previous nest of this pair 
was used by the Cuckoo for her sixteenth egg on 
June 12, and on the 14th we had found in it an egg 
of a strange Cuckoo and another laid by the fosterer 
in the nest we had left empty the day before. 
It was a cheerless wet day on June 20 when, 
at 11.30 a.m., the Cuckoo settled in an oak tree (E) 
in the forest. She was then thought to be merely 
watching No. 8 pair, but, as subsequent events 
showed, she was doubtless about to lay her nine- 
teenth egg in their nest, which I was not aware was 
sufficiently advanced. At 1 p.m. we heard the 
familiar “ bubble ” in the centre orchard, in all 
likelihood given after she had laid in nest 8 4 . 
Locating the Cuckoo in one of the tall pear trees 
close to tree B, we took up positions commanding 
nest 6 4 , for this was the one I expected her to use 
to-day. Before 1.40 I noticed that the male 
Meadow Pipit belonging to this nest seemed to 
expect the Cuckoo's visit as much as I did, for he 
flew to the Cuckoo in the tree and back to the 
approximate nest-site — a distance of seventy yards 
— as many as twelve times. On one occasion he 
insisted on his mate leaving her nest to accompany 
him. The whole attitude of this particular pair 
