FOURTH SEASON (1921): RECORD 135 
before she would desist from her attempts to lind 
No. 5’s nest. A little later, evidently by now 
much harassed by our constant attendance upon 
her wherever she went, she floated down on to the 
territory of No. 6 pair and hopped about obviously 
in search of a nest ; and it is striking proof of the 
truth of my claim that the Cuckoo finds the nests 
of her dupes when building, that she settled on 
this occasion right alongside the still building 
fourth nest of No. 6 pair, which we did not find 
till two days later, when it contained the first egg of 
its owner. 
In the meantime Miss Turner had left her hide 
and we removed it away, thus leaving the coast 
clear for the Cuckoo to return to No. 9. Shortly 
afterwards she came into the pear tree C, in the 
centre orchard, and just after 4 p.m. made another 
float to the site of No. 9’s nest, alighted practically 
at its side but only remained a moment before she 
went up, chased by the Pipits, to her original post, 
the oak tree (E) in the forest. There she sat 
motionless until 4.50 when she again made a flight 
to the nest, but missed her mark and passed on to 
the centre orchard pear tree C. To and fro, she 
made two more attempts; but at 5 p.m. she made 
the final and successful one, floating down, laying 
