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she flew into the centre orchard and settled low 
down in a different tree. (It should be noted that 
after laying the Cuckoo never returned to her 
observation posts.) Though the fosterers had so 
far accompanied her, they now quickly left her, 
which satisfied me that this time she had laid. On 
going up to the nest I recognised the egg as identical 
with the forty-six I had obtained from this Cuckoo 
in the three previous seasons. 
When the Cuckoo was laying the Pipits danced 
about in the most excited manner, giving me at a 
distance the impression that this No. 6 pair 
welcomed the event. And whilst I was watching 
the Cuckoo and Pipits before the egg-deposition, 
one of the latter twice appeared with a green grub 
which it carried and held with apparent intent to 
give to the Cuckoo. The position of the nest was 
150 yards slightly downhill from tree G 3 , and only 
70 yards, rather uphill, from cherry tree A. 
The Laying of the Second Egg , May 14. 
Now that the Cuckoo had begun to lay, I had 
telephoned to London yesterday for the kinemato- 
graph operator, Mr. E. Hawkins, who duly arrived 
that evening. 
To-day there were two possibilities for the 
