CUCKOO'S SECRET.
FOSTER-PARENTS' EGG STOLEN
A' great naturalst, with the help of photographers and kinema photographers, lias this year solved one of the accretf of that mysterious, wrecker of homes, the cuckoo, according to the "Daily Mail." It has been vainly sought by naturalists for more than «. hundred" years. Last year one single cuckoo was watchcd while she laid 21 eggs at 48houi» intervals; but this year the kinetnatograph which has watched 14 egglaying performances by the same bird, Las corrected the e\ idcnce of the eyes. .Phot o;' .' a pi: were actually taken with-ing-six yards. What the cuckoo does is this. She Witches prospective foster-parents—in this case meadov.vpipits—and finds the jiest. Then she foeusscs all attention then much later glides down perch to the nest and goes
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Northern Advocate, 3 January 1922, Page 4
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