1 OCTOBER 1932, Page 14

Certainly to-day we have good hope that some of the

most delightful of European birds are on the way to become British. The spoonbill, the avocet, the ruff have all appeared recently on Norfolk sanctuaries. The liquid notes of the golden oriole and the crest of the hoopoe have delighted observers on the South Coast. The kite has nested in several places. One, alas! was shot last year on the Hereford-Radnor boundary and another frightened from the nest by too eager observers ; but it is probable if the collector and local gunmen can be kept at bay that the kite will become a regular nester with us ; and there is no apparent reason why it should not multiply as the buzzard and peregrine have rrultiplied. * * * *