WAKING BIRDS.
(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.'] Srs„—If you can find room for a few lines, more in the nature of a request for information than a criticism, I should be very glad to ask whether the writer of the charming article on "Waking Birds" in your issue of May 23rd has not forgotten one of the most prominent of the early singers of the dawn,—the lark. From my experience of about a fort- night past, when I have been awake every morning between two and three o'clock, I can endorse all his delightfully expressed experiences, but would add that I have found the lark has always been the first, by some five or ten minutes, to burst into full song. Can the difference be due to locality ? I have always imagined larks abounded allover the South of England.
—.I am, Sir, &c., C. E. HADDOCH. Turville Heath, Henley-on-Thames.
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