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high latitude, and, at the same time, an admirable illustra- 

 tion of the faunally composite character of English bird- 

 life ; types we are accustomed to consider representative of 

 northern and southern life-zones finding in England con- 

 genial surroundings. 



" A Curlew which came aboard " 



Scarce a week now remained of the Nightingale's song 

 season, and a meeting with this most famous of feathered 

 musicians was made the first object of my ornithological 

 pilgrimage. The Nightingale is a bird of southern England, 

 and without loss of time we passed through Liverpool into 

 England, the England of the poets and birds, bound for 

 London to meet correspondents with news of the most ac- 

 cessible, singing Nightingales. 



Looking back over many thousands of miles of railway 

 travel, I do not recall a more interesting journey than those 

 four hours between Liverpool and London, which gave me 

 my first views of English country and, incidentally, of many 

 English birds. Pictures, which are generally of exception- 

 al, rather than of typical scenes, and descriptions, I found 



