A MUSICAL WOOD-PIGEON.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—You may like to add the following to Dr. Littledale's story of the musical cat. One day, during the severest part of last winter, a poor starved wood-pigeon was driven to find shelter in Sir Arthur Hazlerigg's house at Noseley. It was fed and cared for, and was so well pleased with its new quarters that it seems wholly to have forgotten its wild nature. It now lives contentedly in a large cage in one of the rooms, with two doves for its companions, flies about the room when let out, and allows itself to be caught and fondled. But the most curious feature of its domesticated life is that when Miss Hazlerigg goes to the piano, the bird will perch on her head or shoulders, and hop about the piano ; but if any other person plays, it will take no notice. Where did it get that discriminat- ing power P-1 am, Sir, dm,
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