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WITH regard to the letter of Mr, Adair, in last week's NATURE, p. 210, on the cuckoo, I have only to observe that if it does not sing in Somersetshire after Midsummer it does here, in Middlesex; I heard it, to my astonishment, early in the morning of the 6th inst., in the woods and hills to the north. I never recollect its note so late, not after the 3rd.
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JOYNER, H. The Cuckoo. Nature 14, 231 (1876). https://doi.org/10.1038/014231e0
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