April 30—I am writing this in the calm of a Sunday morning—trying to think how rapidly, events must march when May comes rushing in. Some of us who take en interest in wild bird-life enter into a sort of mild competition which of us can find the incoming birds the latest problem is the Indian Cuckoo he of the "one more bottle" call: owing to y habit of scouring the country every day life I have usually been the first in the b the arrivals, but under modern conditions I often have to rely on the evidence of others. In this particular case I confi have not yet seen or heard the bird, but friends have reported a first arrival on the 28th while
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