338 



BIRDS IN LONDON 



Suggestion as to waterfowl at 

 Hampstead, 181 



- at Victoria Park, 196 



as to pond at Kennington, 

 221 



as to moat at Fulham, 252 



as to care of bird life by 

 County Council, 282 



as to Gray's Inn rooks, 305 



as to disposal of stray cats, 

 800 



as to reintroduction of birds 

 to London, 304 



as to encouragement of king- 

 fishers. 322 



Summer visitants, their usual 

 route, 157 



at Hampstead, 178 



at Battersea Park, 243 



songsters in the suburbs, 821 

 Suspiciousness of sparrows, 107 

 Swallows as London visitors, 



130 



Swans and dabchicks, battle 

 between, 100 



their unsuitableness on small 

 ponds, 186, 247 



of the river Lea, 205 



TAME birds as decoys, 312, 314 

 Temple Gardens, origin of 



rookery in, 807 

 Thames, the, as hunting ground 



for crows, 46 

 Thrushes, growing scarceness of, 



160 



Tits, growing rarity of, 159 

 Tooting Bee, 246 

 - Graveney, 248 

 Tower of London, ravens at the, 



27 



Tower of London, fieldfares on 



tree at, 182 



fate of robin at, 141 

 Trap-shooting, sale of jackdaws 



for, 59 

 Trees, ducks nesting in, 39 



destruction of, in Kensington 

 Gardens, 79-84 



old, due care of, 161 



their growth stunted by 

 smoke, 196 



lopping of, at Greenwich, 224 



rooks driven away by mutila- 

 tion of, 71, 77, 81 



Tristram-Valentine, the late 

 Mr., on the starling in London, 

 126 



on gulls in London, 145 

 Tuck, Mr. W. H., on the Ken- 

 sington crows, 42 



Turtle-dove, possible introduc- 

 tion of, 314 



YKSPKK songs of birds, 115 



Victoria Park, 194, 195 



singing lessons to chaf- 

 finches in, 198 



Visitants, occasional, 29, 97, 138, 

 143-145 



WANDSWORTH COMMON, 245, 246 

 Wanstead Park, 210 

 - bird life in, 212 

 Warblers in London, 143 



at Hampstead, 178 



- in Bostell Woods, 228 

 Waterfowl, ornamental, relative 

 value of, 84, 68 



rare, visits of, to the parks. 

 97. 145, 314, 316 



