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IN a letter appearing in NATURE, vol. xxii. p. 76, I stated that—“All the cuckoos here intone in a minor key except one, which alone does not flatten the 3rd of the tonic. The key is in all cases precisely D of concert pitch, as proved by a tuning-fork, and the first note is F on the fifth line”. This year I find that, while the cuckoos here generally intone in D minor, as above, there is one again that intones in D major, and two others in C major and C minor respectively. Some that I casually heard in other places in the neighbourhood intoned in D minor.
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BIRMINGHAM, J. Notes of the Cuckoo. Nature 24, 165 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/024165a0
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