duck pool • .-t King Charles’s time must have e-o:0 
somc'vh nr-, different from that of to-day, the birds can K- 
- much at home, and they nest peacefully on the 
k.rn Duck Island, its direct descendant. Moorhens 
, £ dabcducks, or little grebes, have for the last twenty 
years nested in the Park. They used to leave for the 
breeding season, but since 1883, when the first moorhen 
nested, they have gradually taken to remaining con¬ 
tentedly all through the year, and bring up their young 
there. Birds seem to choose the Park to rest in, and 
many migratory ones have been noticed. Kingfishers 
have recently been let out near the site of the ancient 
bird cages, in the hope that they may carry on the 
histone .CO ;tO' 
v y* as 
Although 
. - of •f 1 .--' : ■ -• - v. . raised, 
0 -Vk: ■ ;c,0o o- wivals 
ccaioeiy be called 
and al 1 interest undoubtedly was 
attached to them as venerable survivals of an old custom, 
they hardly suggested the rural simplicity of the days 
when cows were really pastured in the Park. For over 
two centuries grazing was let to the milk-women who 
sold milk at the end of the Park, near Whitehall They 
paid balf-a-crown a week, and after 1772 three sink mgs 
a v 00 0, for the right to feed cattle in the : 0 A 
Free; describing St James’s at that. too,.:. • aston- 
ished a- eel aspect. “In that part wssrm West** 
minster naeoe appears in ail its rustic soophdty *.. d. m 
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and with willow? sod poplars, without any reuatd to 
