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almost universal wood-pigeon. A few rooks, 

 in 180-3, and again in 1890, tried to establish a 

 rookery here, but have now gone away. The 

 resident songsters are the thrush, blackbird, 

 robin, dunnock, wren, tits, chaffinch, greenfinch, 

 and starling. Among the blackbirds there are, 

 at tlie time of writing this chapter, two white 

 individuals. 



Close to Peckham Eye and Park there are 

 two large cemeteries — Nunhead on one side 

 and Camberwell Cemetery on the other. Both 

 are on high ground ; the first (40 acres) is an 

 extremely pretty spot, and has the finest trees 

 to be seen in any metropolitan burying- 

 ground. From the highest part of the ground 

 an extensive and charming view may be had 

 of the comparatively rural district on the south 

 side. Small birds, especially in the winter 

 months, are numerous in this cemetery, and it 

 is pretty to see the starlings in flocks, chaffinches, 

 robins, and other small birds sitting on the 

 gravestones. 



Camberwell Cemetery is smaller and newer, 

 and has but few trees, but is on even higher 

 ground, as it occupies a slope of the hill 

 above the park. If there is any metropolitan 



