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STAYING this last week-end with a friend at Over-strand, I was much puzzled on the morning of August 6 by a strange bird which I first saw sitting on some low iron gates at the end of the lawn, when I took it for some kind of hawk. It then settled for a time on a croquet-hoop, and ultimately flew away, when its long wings and tail and smooth flight again suggested a hawk. My host, who had seen it before, thought it might be a cuckoo, and this, when a little later we saw it again in flight, seemed a probable solution.
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MACMILLAN, G. An Ornithological Problem. Nature 107, 746 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/107746a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/107746a0
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