8 JUNE 1901, Page 14

THE CURLEW.

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."]

SIR,-If the fact is of any interest, I may add to your editorial note on the breeding of curlews (Spectator, June 1st) from my personal knowledge, that they breed in considerable numbers in South Shropshire, all over that triangle bounded by the Severn on the east, and the Welsh and Herefordshire borders on the west and south. Moreover, they nest by no means exclusively on the moorlands, but all over the rougher arable(' and pastures of the agricultural valleys.—I am, Sir, &c., 39 Norfolk Square, Hyde Park, W.

RALPH B. BENsort.

[We have received other letters stating that curlews commonly nest on the Mid-Devon moors and in the Welsh mountains, both north and south.—En. Spectator.]