THE ZOOLOGIST. 
THIRD SERIES. 
Vou. IIT.] PUL, LBs 9. [No. 31. 
THE BIRDS OF LONDON: 
PAST AND PRESENT, RESIDENTS AND CASUALS. 
By Epwarp Hamiuton, M.D., F.L.S. 
In the latter part of the reign of George the First, General 
Oglethorpe, who died in 1785, and his friend Carew Mildmay 
shot Woodcocks and Snipe in the open fields around Hanover 
Square. A conduit took its rise at the Lord Mayor’s Banquetting 
House, now Stratford Place (where his lordship formerly pro- 
ceeded to hunt the hare before dinner and the fox after), flowed 
across Oxford Street, by Hanover Square, Conduit Street, 
Berkeley Square, Hertford Street, to the top of what then was 
St. James’s Park (now the Green Park), into a large reservoir 
for supplying St. James’s Palace with water. Maitland, writing 
in 1732, says there was no house above Tyburn Road. Montague 
House and Southampton House, only pulled down at the beginning 
of the present century, had each its ample garden, in which 
the Nightingale and other summer warblers gladdened the ears 
of the passers by with their melody. Thrushes and Blackbirds, 
whose descendants now remain in Russell and Bedford Squares, 
frequented the hedgerows of the pastures where now stands 
Upper Montague Place, then the “Field of Forty Footsteps,” 
where the maiden watched the fatal duel between her two 
brothers. The present St. Giles’s Church was only built in 
1734, and was surrounded with high elm trees, where built Rooks, 
Magpies and Kites; the village pound was only removed in 1768. 
Ely House, Holborn, with its garden so famous for strawberries, 
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