18 OCTOBER 1935, Page 16

The Skokholm Cage • Birdlovers, especially students of migration, will

be interested in some further particulars of the great bird observation cage which has now been built on Skokhohn thanks to the generosity of readers of The Spectator. The great cage is built in front of two little pools of water in a hollow on the island. The builders have been volunteers from all over Britain. Young men from Oxford and Cam- bridge and many other places have offered their help ; and thanks to their ready energy the cage (perhaps the best of its sort in the world) was ready, just in time for the autumnal migration. Almost the first bird to fly to the seductive window at the end of the cage and so into the kindly trap was a snipe, of which a charming photograph has been taken. The total cost works out at just over £20, or five pounds more than have yet reached ,Mr. H. M. Lockley, Skokholm Island, Pembrokeshire.