22 NOVEMBER 1913, Page 17

BIRDS IN LONDON.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.")

SIR,—Kensington Gardens have at present an interesting exotic addition to their more permanent avifauna in the presence of a bright green parroquet which has taken up its residence in the old elms where the veteran magpie and the jackdaws reside. Its harsh foreign tongue sounds very strange among the notes of our native birds. It is probably a lost bird. Perhaps this may catch the eye of the sorrowing owner.—I am, Sir, &c., W. M. CROOK. Devonshire Club, St. James's, S. W.