A FEW FRIENDLY FOREIGNERS 

 IN FEATHERS. 



By Lilian Gillette Cook. 



All of the world to whom it is possible, does at one 

 time or another, as did the man in the old Ballad, 

 when he went forth strange conntries for to see, and 

 the things that interest one at home widen to include 

 the similar interests abroad. 



Many a time I am asked about birds seen by travel- 

 lers on the Pacific Slope in the Canadian Rockies, the 

 southern states, through the British Islands and up 

 and down the continent of Europe, while a few in- 

 quiries have come in regard to the feathered inhabi- 

 tants of Africa and farthest India. 



It has entertained me in travelling abroad to notice 

 how some of the birds went travelling with me, so to 

 speak. These, of course, were among those more 

 common in different countries, and perhaps it would 

 be nearer the facts to say that I travelled with the 

 birds, as they were keeping to their usual ways, with 

 which my general plans of travel coincided. 



In England's west-country, in mid-June in the 

 summer of 1913, birds were everywhere, and they are 

 more frequently found in medium-sized towns in 

 England, than with us perhaps. Many rare species 

 were seen, together with common ones, but no Night- 

 ingale glorified an hour. It is said that they do not 

 enter Devonshire and Cornwall and even were they 

 found there, their singing for the season would end 

 about the middle of June. In steaming past Land's 



