LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 
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On October 1 four Lesser Grebes were to be seen on the 
Round Pond, and during this and the next few days there were 
several Sand-martins, House-martins and Swallows in London ; 
all no doubt thinking of their approaching departure. On 
October 4 they had all disappeared : the weather had become 
a good deal colder. 
On October 27 I noticed a Blackbird with a white head near 
Hyde Park Corner. The thrushes began to sing in Kensington 
Gardens on November 4, and on the 6th of that month two 
Grey Wagtails (young birds, I think) were on the banks of the 
Serpentine. On December 7 I found a Meadow Pipit running 
along the edge of the water in Hyde Park; and throughout this 
month a few Greenfinches were frequently seen close to the 
Bridge and nearly always on some birches. 
51, Gloucester Terrace, A. Holte Macpherson. 
Hyde Park, W ., February 4, 1906. 
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. 
The Queen and Murderous Millinery. 
Sir, — With reference to the Queen’s letter in which she 
expressed her concurrence in the protest against the use of the 
aigrette as headgear, it may perhaps have escaped the notice 
of the public that the Humanitarian League had previously 
drafted a Bill which would render illegal the sale of certain 
feathers as millinery, including those of the Egret and Bird of 
Paradise. 
Is it too much to hope that some member of the present 
Parliament will take up the matter ? 
I am, yours faithfully, 
April, 1906. Bird Protector. 
Prehistoric Tombstones. 
Sir, — In your March number Mr. Johnson writes of a 
standing stone, or menhir, at Studland, near Swanage. I 
thought I knew Studland tolerably well, but I know of no 
such stone. Will Mr. Johnson kindly mention its whereabouts ? 
I can hardly suppose he can be referring to the Agglestone or 
the Puckstone, since, though tradition avers that the former 
was dropped by his Satanic majesty, who had intended it to 
crush Salisbury Cathedral, these masses of stone are merely 
ferruginously cemented weathered portions of the Lower Bag- 
shot Sands and are not detached from the rock below them. 
Yours faithfully, 
F. G. S. 
