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 FuUiam, 252 



— as to care of bird life by 

 County Council, 282 



— as to Gray's Inn rooks, 305 



— as to disposal of stray cats, 

 300 



— as to reintroduction of birds 

 to London, 304 



— as to encotiragement of king- 

 fishers, 322 



Summer visitants, their usual 

 route, 157 



at Hampstead, 178 



at Battersea Park, 243 



— songsters in the suburbs, 321 

 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, 307 

 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, 132 



• 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 stimted bj' 

 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. "\V. H., on the Ken- 

 sington crows, 42 



Turtle-dove, possible introduc- 

 tion of, 314 



Vesper 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, 34, 68 



— rare, visits of, to the parks, 

 97, 145, 314, 316 



