Excerpt from The Early Life of the Young Cuckoo

The Cuckoo has always been the subject of considerable controversy and debate, and with all our wonderful strides in the Scientific world we have as yet failed to solve many of the mysteries which surround its life and habits.

With all our years of careful and patient observation we have not yet fathomed the mystery of why the Cuckoo does not build a nest of its own, and as to how many eags one female lays during a season True, we have by this time exploded the altogether erroneous statement that the bird lays its eggs in the nest of the species with which it had decided to entrust its offspring, as it is now proved beyond a doubt that the bird does not lay the egg in the nest nor does it carry the egg in its claws, but first lays the egg on the ground and carries it to the selected nest in its mouth.

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