12 APRIL 1930, Page 18

THE OILING OF BIRDS

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] was much interested in reading Miss Valentine's letter, which you published in the Spectator of March 22nd, on the above subject.

About three weeks ago we spent the afternoon at St. Anthony's Point and Lighthouse, just opposite Falmouth. On the rocks below the Lighthouse were two or three dozen guillemots badly oiled, and the keeper us that they would all die of starvation as they could neither fly or swim.

As St. Anthony's Point is many miles from Lands End and Porthcurno I am afraid the fifty mile line is not being