. Birds through the year . ING may be mobbing the same bird with an antipathy as fierce astheir present affection for it. The idea that cuckoos become hawks in winter is afallacy of rustic natural history which dies hard. It proveshow easily the cuckoo and the smaller hawks can be mistakenfor each other, when the familiar cry is not available as ameans of distinction. A half-convinced believer in the oldfable will ask if the cuckoo is ever seen in foreign countries,still clinging to the notion that it dwells all the year in Britain,and merely goes through a peculiar metamorphosis in
. Birds through the year . ING may be mobbing the same bird with an antipathy as fierce astheir present affection for it. The idea that cuckoos become hawks in winter is afallacy of rustic natural history which dies hard. It proveshow easily the cuckoo and the smaller hawks can be mistakenfor each other, when the familiar cry is not available as ameans of distinction. A half-convinced believer in the oldfable will ask if the cuckoo is ever seen in foreign countries,still clinging to the notion that it dwells all the year in Britain,and merely goes through a peculiar metamorphosis in of the knowledge accumulated in books, whichguides and stimulates accurate observation, few countrymentake the trouble to test their traditional beliefs about wildlife. And until the story of its life was pieced together bycareful observers, the metamorphosis of the adult cuckoo intoa sparrow-hawk would certainly seem no more incrediblethan the actual process by which the new-born bird gets ridof its legitimate » t, v -V / #5^ I ^Jmr ^%zm0^\\.
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