Sufferings of Birds 
that it was ‘‘only a momentary pang.” 
The STARLINGS circling nightly around Nel- 
son’s Column, the THRUSHEsS singing daily 
in Belgrave Square, the MALLARD passing 
over St. George’s Hospital every evening, 
were all familiar sights. The War had not, 
however, been long begun before many sheets 
of water were drained: notably the lake in 
St. James’s Park, where, not long after, arose 
a group of Government buildings appropri- 
ately known as ‘“‘ Lake Dwellings.’ With 
the prolongation of the War came the erec- 
tion of other Government and Y.M.C.A. 
buildings in all available spaces, including 
many of the London parks and squares, thus 
banishing former denizens, and also migra- 
tory visitors, which used to lend so much 
interest and beauty to them (Westminster 
Gazette, 9.1v.18). 
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