29 AUGUST 1947, Page 18

A Happy Survival It was feared at one time that

one British bird had been wiped clean out by the excesses of last winter and spring—to wit, the very local bearded tit. I hear with delight that just two pairs survived and have bred in East Anglia. May they repopulate those happy districts! Mt own ex- perience, which coincides with a Norfolk record, is that the common jenny wren was the greatest victim. The glorious energy of that atom's song has not been heard at all during, this summer over wide districts.