6 DECEMBER 1890, Page 32

MEMORY OF BIRDS.

I To ran Rums or THE "specuros.1 SIR,—Last year I fed the tomtits with a cocoanut suspended on a stick outside my window, and they came greedily. This year forgot all about it, but hearing a clamour in a fuchsia- bush outside my study-window during the snow of last week,

I found myself besieged by an army of tomtits, who had taken_ this effectual means of reminding me of my want of care..

Was it memory, or association of ideas, or both am, Sir„,

&c., F. G. MONTAGU POWELL. The Parsonage, Dalkeith, N.B.