7 NOVEMBER 1931, Page 12

A curiously close parallel to the story of the lark

that sought refuge from a hawk between a yachtsman's feet is told me by a friend who is also a singularly accomplished naturalist. He says: "I remember—now, alas ! over forty years ago—a very similar case. A skylark, with a sparrow-hawk in close pursuit, alighted at my father's feet and remained there till the hawk disappeared. There were four of us kids with him at the time, which made it all the more ' fearful ' for the lark."

W. BEACH THOMAS.