CONTENTS xiii 



I'AOE 



Camberwell New Park — Southwark Park — Kenninf;- 

 ton Park — Fine shrubberies — Greenwich Park and 

 Blacklieath — A stately and depressing park — Mutilated 

 trees — The extreme East — Bostell Woods and Heatli — 

 Their peculiar charm — Woolwich and Plumstead Com- 

 mons — Hilly Fields — Peckham Rye and Park — A 

 remonstrance — Nmihead and Camberwell Cemeteries 

 — Dulwich Park — Brockwell Park — The rookery . . '216 



CHAPTEE XIII 



SOUTH-WEST LONDON 



Introductory remarks — Comparative large extent of public 

 ground in South-west London — Battersea Park — 

 Character and popularity — Bird life — Clapham Com- 

 mon : its present and past character — Wandsworth 

 Common — The yellow-hammer — Tooting Common — 

 Tooting Bee — Questionable improvements — A passion 

 for swans — Tooting Graveney — Streatham Common — 

 Bird life — Magpies — Rookery — Bishop's Park, Fulham 

 — A suggestion — Barn Elms Park — Barnes Common — 

 A burial-ground — Birds— Putney Heath, Lower Putney 

 Common, and Wimbledon Common — Description — 

 Bird life — Rookeries — The badger — Richmond Park — 

 Its vast extent and character — Bird life — Daws — 

 Herons — The charm of large soaring birds — Kew 

 Gardens — List of birds -Unfavourable changes — The 

 Queen's private grounds . . . 2S7 



CHAPTER XIV 



PROTECTION OP BIBDS IN THE PAEKS 



Object of this book — Summary of facts contained in pre- 

 vious chapters — An incidental result of changes in 

 progress — Some degree of protection in all the open 

 spaces, efficient protection in none — Jlischievous visi- 

 tors to the .parks — Bird fanciers and stealers — The 



