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SEVERAL well-known naturalists who have seen my sketch from life of the young cuckoo ejecting the young pipit (opposite p. 22 of the little versified tale of which I send a copy)* have expressed a wish that the details of my observations of the scene should be published. I therefore send you the facts, though the sketch itself seems to me to be the only important addition I have made to the admirably accurate description given by Dr. Jenner in his letter to John Hunter, which is printed in the “Philosophical Transactions” for 1788 (vol. lxxviii., pp. 225, 226), and which I have read with pleasure since putting down my own notes.
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B., J. Cuckoo and Pipit . Nature 5, 383 (1872). https://doi.org/10.1038/005383b0
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