5 JUNE 1897, Page 16

A BIRD-STORY.

[To TEE EDITOR or TIM " SPECTATOIL"j SIR.—When I was residing at Gilean Aigas, on the Beanly, in 1854, a woodcock, carrying a young one with its legs hanging _down, flew slowly past my wife and myself as we were walking round the island one evening in July just before dusk.-1 am, Sir. &e., House of Commons, May 31st. C. J. MONK.