7 JANUARY 1899, Page 24

ROAD-MAKING ANIMALS.

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPEOTATOR."] SIR, I was surprised to see that the writer of the very interesting article in the Spectator of December 31st made no allusion to the paths cut in water-reeds by pike and other fishes. I fancy I have seen this phenomenon even as near home as the Norfolk Broads, but I most distinctly recollect in Mecklenburg regular straight roads, from either side of which the reeds had been bent aside close to the surface by moving pike. Another somewhat analogous instance, also overlooked by your contributor, is that of paths made in the reeds by moorhens and other waterfowl.—I am, Sir, &c.,

F. G. Arran°.