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one bird, the House-sparrow, who is always at home 

 amid the bustle of human life, and who, if England 

 were to become one big city, would out-do Sir Boyle 

 Roche's famous bird and be, not in two, but in all 

 places at once. Happily he is not the only bird 

 which takes to town life. In Germany there is the 

 Stork, and in London we have the Domestic Pigeon, 

 the descendant of the Rock-dove, at Westminster, 

 at the National Gallery, at the British Museum, at 

 Liverpool Street Station, and many other places. 

 And in Regent's Park in January I have heard the 

 Thrush and the Robin singing in a thick and choking 

 London fog. There are a great many birds that 

 will live happily and without fear amid the noise of 

 human life, or in a comparatively quiet town-garden 

 or park, where, however much they may be looked at, 

 they are free from actual molestation. Even the 

 Wood-pigeon is now a Londoner. 



Books on the Subject. 



Facts bearing on this question will be found in almost all 

 books on the natural history of birds. See Mr. Hudson's Birds 

 in a Village. 



