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IN connection with the notes of Mr. Adair and Mr. Joyner in NATURE of July 6th and 13th, let me record that the Cuckoo has not even yet left us in the Midlands. I heard it only last evening near to my own house. There is a popular rhyme, long current in Derbyshire, concerning this bird. One couplet tells us the Cuckoo may be heard βIn April, May, June, and July, If she sings any longer she'll tell a story;β so that even this rude rhyme shows that it is not expected to depart earlier than this month.
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JEWITT, L. The Cuckoo. Nature 14, 250 (1876). https://doi.org/10.1038/014250b0
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