10 JULY 1909, Page 19

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR,"] SIR, — The cuckoo-call we have

mostly heard here throughout May and June has been from E to D. On June 14th I heard a very low second, I think B to A, and the same evening a fourth, approximately G to D. On June 2nd I also heard a second and a fourth the same day.—I am, Sir, &c.,

P.S.—Perhaps I should add what my sister has just told me : that on one occasion last month she heard a cuckoo during a long succession of calls vary the third ; starting with a minor third he gradually dropped his lower note to a major third; then after a little picked himself up again to the minor third, and repeated the performance.