19 NOVEMBER 1948, Page 15

Playing Birds

Complaints of the more or less new game of the tits continue to arrive, especially, as before, from Cornwall. One Cornish observer—aged ten— describes how after removing milk-lids they seized the red label of a parcel and threw the bits in the air. Here is more evidence that birds, like many mammals, especially bears, like a game, and perform. variou' antics—like swallows with floating feathers and wagtails with dogs— merely for the fun of the thing.