S I R S , -- I am much interested in Dr. J. M. Dewar's notes under this heading in the November number of British Birds (antea, pp. 178-9) as I have some rather similar notes on the Mute Swan. In Bretton Park, near Wakefield, Yorkshire, in May, 1934, there were three nests of t h e Mute Swan on the shores and an island of a 19 acre lake. Two of these nests had eggs ; of the third I am not certain a...

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