Vintage Taxidermy. Cuckoo, 1954, perched on a branch before blue painted background, in wall hanging glazed case with fragmentary typewritten label and on the reverse a press cutting, 38cm h x 40cm lAccording to the label, the present cuckoo was accidentally killed in flight by a golf ball when a member of the Radyr Golf Club, R Vaughan Thomas of 19 Alfreda Road, Whitchurch, Cardiff was taking his second shot with a Number 5 iron on the 9th fairway on Sunday morning, 23rd May 1954 Good condition and possibly a unique example of taxidermy resulting from a sporting incident of this nature