INDEX 



Abney Park Cemetery, 190 

 ' Afternoon tea,' sparrows at, 9 

 Albino daws, 64, 66 

 Anemones, decorative use of, by 



moorhens, 96 

 Arnold, Matthew, ' Lines written 



in Kensington Gardens,' 161 



Badger-hunt, a modern, 259 

 Badgers at Wimbledon. 258 



— a colony of, in Caen Wood, 

 327 



Barn Elms Park, 258 

 Barnes Common, 258, 254 

 Battersea Park, moorhen's aes- 

 thetic nest in, 96 



starlings congregating in, 



189 



— — making of, 240 



bird life assisted in, 242 



a spirited cat in, 291 



Beverley Brook, 258, 255 

 Birds' -nesting, 175, 188, 280 

 Birds of London, changes among 



the, 5 

 — recent additions to, 89, 



94 

 — passerine, 104 



Birds of London, their disregard 

 of noise, 188 



encouragement of. 242, 



275 



Bishop's Park, Fnlham, 251 



bird life in, past and pre- 

 sent, 252 



Blackbirds in London, white, 

 64, 123 



— proportional numbers of. 122 

 Booth, Mr. Charles, as to 



• roughs,' 279 

 Bostell Woods and Heath. 226 



bird hfe in, 227, 230 



Bread-eating by the crow. 45 



— by the gull, 148 



Breeding places, need of. in 

 central parks, 168, 179 



Brockwell Park, 285 



Buckhurst Hill, white owl at, 

 166 



Caen Wood, Nature's balance hi, 



326 

 Camberwell Cemetery, 238 

 Carrion crow,as domestic pet, 48 

 — — as mouser, 49 

 as practical joker, 50 



