26 APRIL 1924, Page 17

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

SIR,—The correspondence you kindly published on this subject has brought me another letter from a friend who tells me he found a dead redwing in his garden in Berkshire on March 26th. This does not strike me as a very late date for the country parts of England. What led me to write to you originally was the very late date—or so it seemed to me —of the appearance of redwings in the London parks. I wonder if any of your readers in the Northern Counties or in Scotland have noticed that the redwings are very late in leaving this year ?—I am, Sir, &c.,

W. M. Caoog. Devonshire Club, St. James's Street, S.W. 1.