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ONE day last week I was in my garden—a not particularly private country one—when I heard a cuckoo close by, and, standing quite still, I saw the bird alight upon an apple tree not more than four yards from me. The bird did not appear to object to my close proximity, for it uttered its call “cuckoo” twice. Its mate then came and sat in a plum tree only five yards from me, on the opposite side of me; one of them had a caterpillar in its mouth. Then a blackbird came into another tree in a state of great excitement uttering its “pink pink,” as I supposed, at the cuckoos; and the question arose in my mind, “Does the cuckoo feed its own young, and was that in the blackbird's nest?” Can any of your readers help me?
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WILSON, W. Habits of the Cuckoo. Nature 60, 175 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/060175a0
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