14 SEPTEMBER 1918, Page 12

A PROUD SWAN.

[To THE EDITOR or TIM " SPECTATOR."]

see the question asked by a correspondent in your issue of August 31st as to whether large broods of cygnets have been noticed in England this summer. It may possibly be of some interest to say that I have myself seen a family of seven cygnets this year at Welbeck Abbey, which were hatched on the lake there, and were all strong and well-grown at the end of August, and always in the company of both their parents.—I am, Sir, &c.,

Longwell, Berriedale, R.S.O., Caithness. R. B. CARR.