1 FEBRUARY 1930, Page 21

THE EXCESS OF COCK-PHEASANTS.

I was reading with interest .Sir W. Beach-Thomas's article about the preponderance of cock-pheasants this season. Perhaps it has not much bearing on the case, but in my aviary I have bred not one hen budgerigar this year, though my two pairs have reared fourteen young cocks at least. Is this a year for cocks, I wonder, and will the coming season be one for hens.—Lucy C. Scorr, Norton Canon, Weobley, Hereford.