332 



BIRDS IN LONDON 



Carrion crows in London, 32 



- mock battle of, 33 



- daily flight of, 42 



modification of feeding 

 habits, 44 



- picking food from the 

 river, 46 



visits of, to the Zoological 

 Gardens, 175 



Cat, a, on a Battersea island, 291 

 Cathedrals, aesthetic value of 



daws to, 53, 264 

 Cats, need of their exclusion 



from bird preserves, 163, 221, 



276, 284 



connection between sparrows 

 and, 285 



deliberate ' straying ' of, 299 



suggestion as to disposal of, 

 300 



present attempts at exclusion 

 of, from parks, 301 



destruction of low-nesting ! 

 birds by, 290 



- their numbers in London, I 

 294 



ownerless, 295 

 Cemeteries : 



Kensal Green, 172 

 Abney Park, 190 

 established on Barnes Com- 

 mon, 254 



their future use, 171, 186, 234 

 Chaffinch, the, as songster, 12 

 - its winter resorts, 144 



its return to London, 158 



from the bird-fancier's point 

 of view, 197-200 



care of nest of, at Clissold 

 Park, 280 



Changes in bird population, 5, 

 267, 273 



Changes in habits of birds, 93 

 ' Chapel,' a sparrows', 114, 288 

 Checks, natural, to sparrow in- 

 crease, 325 

 needed, on pigeon increase, 



313 



Churchyard Bottom Wood, 184 

 City, woodpigeons nesting in 



the, 91 



Clapham Common, 243 

 Clissold Park, crows formerly 

 in, 45 



hasty visit of daws to, 57 



woodpigeons in, 91 



description of, 189 



- regard for bird life in, 190, 

 280 



bird experiments in, 309 

 Corncrake, its occasional pre- 

 sence at Hampstead, 178 



County Council, their aim in 

 bird protection, 17 



- their management of 

 Hampstead Heath, 182 



- their improvements in 

 Hackney Marsh, 202-208 



- at Peckham Rye Park, 

 231 



their swans, 247 



suggested care of birds by, 

 282 



suggested action of, as to 

 stray cats, 302 



Courser, cream-coloured, shot at 



Hackney, 209 

 Crows, species of, in London, 



20,29 



DABCHICK, see Grebe 

 Darkness of London winter, 

 birds affected by, 106 



