240 BIRDS IN LONDON 



St. James's, Bushey, and Hampton Court Parks, 

 the South-west district would then have about 

 8,650 acres in large open spaces. All the rest 

 of London, with the whole vast space of Epping 

 Forest thrown in, would have 7,500, or 1,150 

 acres less than the South-west district. 



The large open spaces of South-west London, 

 although more scattered about than is the case 

 in other metropolitan districts, do nevertheless 

 form more or less well-defined groups. Batter- 

 sea Park is an exception : it is the only open 

 space in this district which has, so to speak, 

 been entirely remade, the digging and planting, 

 which have been so vigorously going on for 

 several years past, having quite obliterated its 

 original character. Coming to speak of the 

 open spaces in detail, I propose first to describe 

 this made park ; to go next to the large 

 commons south of Battersea — Clapham, Wands- 

 worth, Tooting, and Streatham ; then, returning 

 to the river-side, to describe Bishop's Park, 

 Fulham, and its near neighbour, Barnes Com- 

 mon ; and, finally, to go on to the large spaces 

 at Kew, Putney, Wimbledon, and Eichmond. 



Battersea Park (198 acres), formerly a marsh, 



