22 MAY 1947, Page 15

Pink Feathers Someone, whose letter has vanished, sent me the

other day a few, brightly pink leatChers picked up on the shore near St. David's in Pembrokeshire. They are an interesting find. It seems to be tolerably certain—on the courteous authority of the British Museum (Natural History)--that they belonged to the rose-coloured starling, a beautiful bird not uncommon in South-Eastern Europe and Asia Minor. Another example of its spasmodic visits to Britain is of no little scientific interest ; and here is another argument for making that part of Pembrokeshire, into a sanctuary, as Mr. Jockley desires.