FOURTH SEASON (1921): RECORD 121 
him of the whereabouts of the Cuckoo. Whilst 
we were talking she appeared overhead, her floating 
flight definitely indicating that she had designs 
upon the nest by which we were standing. Hawkins 
hurried into the hide and in response to his query 
as to the Cuckoo’s whereabouts I told him that she 
was in the forest on his left to the north. The 
lens of the camera was directed north-east on the 
site of the nest, seven yards distant, and Hawkins 
was hopeful of securing pictures of the Cuckoo 
alighting, hence his desire to know from which 
direction she would approach. 
Whilst I was assisting Simmonds into another 
hide not more than 50 yards distant, brought up 
for the purpose of watching the expected flight, 
the Cuckoo again made a demonstration overhead, 
flew round and settled in tree K 1 . She had not 
been there more than a minute when at 1.40 p.m. 
she began her floating glide towards the nest, a 
distance of about 90 yards. This took me so much 
by surprise that it was quite twenty seconds before 
I got my stop-watch in hand. As pre-arranged 
with Hawkins I blew a whistle as the Cuckoo 
began to fly towards him, but unfortunately she 
did not alight within the area covered by the 
camera lens. The following is Hawkins’ own 
