12 APRIL 1930, Page 15

THRUSH U. BLACKBIRD.

A correspondent living on the edge of a Scottish town asks : " Why have my thrushes vanished, though the black- birds remain ? " Personally I know no place where black- birds are so many as in the southern suburbs of London, and nests are common in suburban gardens. Incidentally I found ten eggs in one nest last year ! They stand perhaps in relation to the thrush as the French partridge to the English, and tend to drive the more sensitive bird away.

W. BEACH THOMAS