CHAPTER X 
SOME NOTES ON OTHER CUCKOOS (1921) 
Whilst in the 1921 season I and my band of helpers 
were studying the ways of Cuckoos parasitic upon 
Meadow Pipits, I was fortunate in receiving the 
results of the year’s work of three other Cuckoo 
enthusiasts, Messrs. G. J. Scholey, A. E. Lees, 
and E. E. Pettitt. Their attention, in three 
entirely different districts, was devoted in the main 
to Cuckoos parasitic upon Reed Warblers ( Aero - 
cephalus streperus ), but the two first-named observers 
also produced some interesting results with Pied 
Wagtail ( Motacilla lugubris) and Sedge Warbler 
(Acrocephalus phragmitis) Cuckoos respectively. 
Mr. G. J. Scholey’s Reed Warbler Cuckoo 
proved herself to be nearly as prolific a bird as my 
Meadow Pipit Cuckoo “ A,” for he obtained from 
her the very fine series of nineteen eggs, following 
on a series of sixteen laid by her in the previous 
season (1920), and six in 1919 — apparently her first 
year. The area occupied by this Cuckoo consisted 
