19 APRIL 1930, Page 15

RAPED SPRING.

Spring has advanced by leaps and bounds to meet Easter. I cannot remember a year when so many migrant birds synchronized : the early birds were a little late and the later, perhaps, a little early. The most punctual as a rule is the cuckoo ; but there is one claim this spring (and from a good observer) on behalf of a March Cuckoo, a Tara avis