25 JULY 1908, Page 16

AS VAIN AS A PEACOCK.

LTo THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The peacock is not singular in his self-admiration. Pigeons are so notorious for the same vice that it is, I am told, illegal to put a looking-glass in a dovecot, as it would attract and retain the birds from the neighbouring pigeon-