(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—In your interesting article
on "The English Mocking- Bird " in the Spectator of May 25th you refer to the fells bordering on the valley of the Eden, remarking that on these the curlews breed. Are you not mistaken ? When a youth I resided in Castletown, Isle of Man, whose lonely shores and heath-covered fells rising to a height of 1,500 ft. are a favourite haunt of these birds. It is certain that if curlews nested any-
where in the British Isles it would be there, but I have not met any one who had found a curlew's nest, and I believe the nests of these birds are only to be found on the shores of the
[We insert our correspondent's letter, but the curlew breeds to our knowledge all over Scotland, in Cumberland, Northumberland, and Westmoreland, and as far south as the Yorkshire moors.—ED. Spectator.]
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