1 JULY 1911, Page 24

BIRDS AND FRUIT NETS.

[TO THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOZ.1 Sta,—Will you allow me to suggest to the bird lovers among your readers that during the summer season they should make a point of periodically visiting their fruit nets, and so insure against such of our little songsters as may have been caught there dying a slow death by hunger and thirst ? It is quite a common thing for the dead body of a bird to be found entangled in the meshes of a strawberry net, and one does not like to think of the lingering death by which the little thief has atoned for his very natural greediness.—I am, Sir, &c.,