PETERSFIELD, June 24.
A CUCKOO IN A SNUG NEST. — In one of the green-houses attached to Ditcham House, near this town, may be seen a young cuckoo in full feather, and quite at home in a nest built on the top of a pot between the rim of the same and the stem of a fuchia growing therein. It appears that a pair of wagtails having availed themselves of the opportunity offered by the glass slides being a little drawn for ventilation, in true accordance with the curious freaks possessed by the feathered race at the season of incubation, entered the opening and built their nest as stated above, in which the full quantum of eggs were laid. A cuckoo soon after was observed to enter the opening and proceed to the nest, where, having been seen quietly ensconced for some little time, left through the same opening she had entered. Upon this being noticed by a person near at hand, he at once proceeded to the nest for examination, and there found that the eggs of the wagtail had all been ejected, and a cuckoo's egg deposited in their place, from which the young cuckoo in question was hatched by its kind step-mother wagtail, and is now fully fledged, and ready for its natural flight.