4 JULY 1908, Page 25

BIRDS IN THE STRAWBERRY NETS. I.TO THE EDITOR or THE

SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Will you allow me to suggest to the bird-lovers among your readers that during the summer season they should make a practice of periodically visiting their fruit nets so as to ensure against such of our little songsters as may have been caught there dying a slow death by hunger and thirst ? It is quite a common sight to see the dead body of a bird entangled in the meshes of a strawberry net, and one does not like to think of the lingering death by which the little thief has atoned for his very natural greediness.—I am, Sir, &c.,

MISSEL THRUSH.