30 SEPTEMBER 1911, Page 15

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Apropos of T.

C. F.'s letter in your issue of Saturday last, it might perhaps interest your readers to hear of another odd instance of a predilection shown for wasps—this time by a chicken in a Sussex garden, who made a practice of paying regular visits to the jars of sugar and water set about to attract the wasps and feasting upon the victims. As an enormous number were entrapped daily, she must have con- sumed hundreds.

I enclose a photograph showing her in the act of enjoying

her dainty meal.—I am, Sir, &c., M. A. B. The camera is not always a trustworthy witness, but here its evidence is incontestable.—ED. Spectator.]