INDEX 



ABNEY PAKK 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, 253 

 Barnes Common, 253, 254 

 Battersea Park, moorhen's ses- 



thetic nest in, 96 

 starlings congregating in, 



139 



making of, 240 



- bird life assisted in, 242 



a spirited cat in, 291 

 Beverley Brook, 253, 255 

 Birds' -nesting, 175, 183, 230 

 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, Fulham, 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 life in, 227, 230 

 Bread-eating by the crow, 45 

 - by the gull, 148 

 Breeding places, need of, in 



central parks, 163, 179 

 Brockwell Park, 235 

 Buckhurst Hill, white owl at r 



166 



CAEN WOOD, Nature's balance in, 



326 



Camberwell Cemetery, 233 

 Carrion crow,as domestic pet, 4& 



as inouser, 49 



as practical joker, .'>() 



