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so-and-so.” To give the full account of each day’s 
work would be not only redundant but probably 
wearisome now that the modus operandi has been 
so often explained. 
To resume. To-day we expected the Cuckoo 
to use the second nest of No. 9 pair, and so moved 
up a hide to within six yards of it for filming 
purposes. Other hides, for the use of Miss Young 
and Messrs. Calder and Maudsley, who motored 
over specially to observe the performance, were 
placed at distances varying from 30 to 50 yards away. 
Hawkins fixed up his apparatus in the hope of 
filming the Cuckoo’s glide down to the nest from 
the pear tree C in the centre orchard in which she 
was expected to sit prior to laying. 
After various manoeuvres the Cuckoo sat motion- 
less in the previously indicated perch in the pear 
tree C, from 1.55 to 3.15, and during this period I 
joined Hawkins in his hide and remained with 
him for that day’s event. Then she was disturbed 
more than once and it was not until 4.26 that she 
glided to the nest, a distance of about 80 yards, 
alighted by its side, glared at our hide for a few 
jseconds, and then suddenly dived at the nest-hole. 
|Concealed in the “ screen ” sitting beside Hawkins 
I was so intently gazing at her every movement as 
