BIBDS FOB LONDON 



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Sanctuaries like that of Caen Wood the 

 Metropolitan parks can never be. Only in a 

 few of the most favourably situated open spaces 

 on the borders of London could we have any- 

 thing approaching to the richness and harmony 

 seen in this perfect transcript of wild nature. 

 But it should be our aim to have all the 

 parks, even to the most central, as nearly 

 like sanctuaries as such small isolated urban 

 spaces, inhabited by so limited a number of 

 species, may be made. 



dabchick's floating nest : st. james's park 



