334 



BIEDS IN LONDON 



Herons, increase of, at Eichmond, 



263 



Heronry at Wanstead, 212 

 Hibbert, the late Mr. Shirley, 



on robins in London, 124 



on London birds, 



152 



Highbury Fields, 191 

 Highgate Cemetery, manifest 



destiny of, 186 



- Woods, characteristics of, 183 

 Holland Park, difficulties of 



ducks in, 39 



as bird sanctuary, 157 

 Hyde Park, bird-feeders in, 15 



destruction of ravens in, 25 

 decrease of birds in, 275 



ISLAND refuges, need of, as sanc- 

 tuaries, 164, 275 

 in Battersea Park, 242 



JACKDAW, a tame, 58 



his egg-stealing avenged, 61 



his parting visit, 63 



- at Clissold Park, 310 



wild daws attracted by, 311 

 Jackdaws, their rarity in London, 

 52 



as cathedral birds, 53, 264 



colony of, at Kensington, 55 



- their relations with rooks, 

 56, 138 



short visit of, to Clissold 

 Park, 57 



- white, 63 



- abundance of, at Richmond, 

 262 



Jay, its absence from the inner 

 parks, 23 



Jay at Streatham, 250 



- at Wimbledon, 257 

 at Eichmond, 263 



- at Kew, 267 



' Jenny,' the Tower raven, 29 



KEMPSHALL, Mr., loaf- stealing 



crow observed by, 45 

 Kennington Park, 219 



- bird life in, 221 

 Kensington Gardens, raven in* 



27 

 daws in, 55, 274 



former rookery in, 77-82 

 a stranger's first view of, 



78 



destruction of trees in, 

 79-85 



Matthew Arnold on, 161 



- owls in, 165, 274 

 Kestrels at Hackney Marsh, 206 

 Kew Gardens, 265 



- bird life in, 267 

 Kilburn, open spaces in, 172 

 Kirnber, Sergeant, his experi- 

 ments in Clissold Park, 309 



Kingfisher in Battersea Park, 

 293 



suggestion for encouragement 

 of, 322 



Kite, its former office as sca- 

 venger, 2 



destruction of last nest of, 

 121 



LAMBETH PALACE, skylarks in 

 grounds of, 144 



- white owl at, 166 

 Lea Eiver, swans on the, 205 



former fishing in the, 206 



