Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

     In addition to sparrows, pigeons and other birds usually seen in a great city, Berlin has now a colony of wild parrots. Since the early months of the year a small group of common grey parrots have been observed in the streets of the extreme northern quarter of the town, where there is still a good deal of unbuilt land and garden vegetation, and have been a constant source of interest to observant nature lovers. The little strangers, to the number of 12 or 13, who are supposed to have escaped from the cages of some bird fancier, have successfully foraged for themselves all through the summer months, and if they succeed in overcoming the rigors’ of the approaching winter and reach the brooding season next spring there seems some possibility that Brelin will in a year or two have a regular population of wild parrots in its streets.-London Evening Standard.