3 FEBRUARY 1933, Page 18

THE HAPPINESS OF PARROTS

[To the Editor of TILE SPECTATOR.] Sia—I am amazed at Sir W. Beach Thomas' statement that " most pretty Polls . . . would prefer the freedom of their bars to the freedom of field and wood." Does he imagine they are bred in captivity ? To anyone who has seen happy parrots flying about in the jungles of their native lands, the sight of a parrot in a tiny cage is no less pitiable and repulsive than that of a lark or nightingale in the same cruel eireum- stances.—I am, Sir, &c., LILIAN- M. RUSSELL.

The Overseas League, Park Place, S.11'.1.