304 BIRDS IN LONDON 



CHAPTER XVI 



BIRDS FOR L O N I) ( ) X 



Restoration of the rook The Gray's Inn rookery Suggestions 

 On attracting rooks Temple Gardens rookery Attempt 

 to establish a rookery at Clissold Park A new colony of 

 daws Hawks Domestic pigeons An abuse Stock-dove 

 and tnrtle-dove Ornamental water-fowl, pinioned and 

 unpinioned Suggestions Wild water -fowl in the parks 

 Small birds for London Missel-thrush Nuthatch Wren 

 Loudness a merit Summer visitants to London King- 

 fisher Hard-billed birds A use for the park sparrows 

 Natural checks A sanctuary described. 



MY purpose in this chapter is to make a few 

 suggestions as to the species which may be 

 introduced or restored with a fair prospect of 

 success, and which would form a valuable addi- 

 tion to the metropolitan wild bird life. The 

 species to be mentioned here have very nearly 

 all been resident, some of them very common, in 

 former years ; most of them survive on the 

 borders of London, and some still linger in 

 diminished numbers in a few of the interior open 

 spaces. 



