21 JUNE 1913, Page 16

INTERESTING BIRDS NEAR LONDON.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1

Sin,—On January 15th, while I was watching a match on the Richmond Football Ground, a heron sailed over it, going west. Mr. Laurence Housman's lines on one which he saw over "Edwardes Square, in Kensington," came into my mind as the bird passed. You may remember publishing them in the