BIBDS IN LONDON 



pa(;k 

 how tlicy are thinued — Shooting a chicken with a 

 revolver — Habits of the Hyde Park mallard — Anecdotes 

 —Number of London crows — The crow a long-lived 

 bird : a bread -eater — Anecdote — Seeks its food on the 

 river — The crow as a pet — Anecdotes .... 82 



CHAPTEE IV 



THE LONDON DAW 



Rarity of the daw in London — Pigeons and daws com- 

 pared — -Esthetic value of the daw as a cathedral bird — 

 Kensington Palace daws ; their disposition and habits 

 — Friendship with rooks — "Wandering daws at Clissold 

 Park — Solitary daws — Mr. Mark Melford's birds — 

 Rescue of a hundred daws — The strange history of an 

 . egg-stealing daw — White daws— Wliite ravens — Wil- 

 lughby's speculations — A suggestion .... 52 



CHAPTEE V 



EXPULSION OF THE ROOKS 



Positions of the rook and crow compared Gray's Inn 

 Gardens rookery — ]keak-up of the old, and futile 

 attempt of the birds to establish new rookeries — The 

 rooks a great loss to London — Why the rook is esteemed 

 — Incidents in the life of a tame rook — A first sight of 

 tiie Kensington Gardens rookery — The true history of 

 the expulsion of the rooks — A desolate scene, and a 

 vision of London beautified ..... (IH 



CilAI'TEE Vi 



llECENT COLONISTS 



'I'Ik- woo<l-])ig.(,n in Kensn)gton (Jardens— Its increase— its 

 beauty and charm — Perching on Shakespeare's statue in 

 I .!<•<. wf,.,- Scjuare -C^hnngi; of liabits- Thonoorhen Its 



