27 AUGUST 1910, Page 19

[Tu 'THE EDITOR OF THE- "SPEC1ATOR:] Sin,—With.reference to a letter

. from Dr. Benjamin Biekley Rogers in your issue of last. week, Iventure to draw. his.atten, tion to the-fact that lathe third edition of Morris's "British Birds," VoL L, p. 238, there is an account, with an illustra- tion, of the red-breasted flycatcher. Mr. Morris says :-- -" There, seems no reason why this bird should not be a regular visitor to us if it were not that it is almost sure to be shot.as soon as noticed on its arrival, for it has occurred in several instances."—I am, Sir, &c., A. H. G. H.