. Birds through the year . STONE-CURLEW 8 SPRING cated to be doubted ; and with the March cuckoo, or some-times even a few days before it, comes sometimes thecuckoos mate, or wryneck. By the latter half of March thetrees harbour enough reviving insects to provide the wry-neck with a fair living if the weather is bright and mild ; butone can only conjecture how exceptionally early cuckoospick up a living, before the first of their favourite hairycaterpillars—the woolly bears and drinkers—emerge fromhibernation and creep among the April

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