- Abney Park Cemetery, 190
- ‘Afternoon tea,’ sparrows at, 9
- Albino daws, 64, 66
- Anemones, decorative use of, by moorhens, 96
- Arnold, Matthew, ‘Lines written in Kensington Gardens,’ 161
- Badger-hunt, a modern, 259
- Badgers at Wimbledon, 258
- — a colony of, in Caen Wood, 327
- Barn Elms Park, 253
- Barnes Common, 253, 254
- Battersea Park, moorhen’s Æsthetic nest in, 96
- — — starlings congregating in, 139
- — — making of, 240
- — — bird life assisted in, 242
- — — a spirited cat in, 291
- Beverley Brook, 253, 255
- Birds’-nesting, 175, 183, 230
- Birds of London, changes among the, 5
- — — — recent additions to, 89, 94
- — — — passerine, 104
- — — — their disregard of noise, 188
- — — — encouragement of, 242, 275
- Bishop’s Park, Fulham, 251
- — — bird life in, past and present, 252
- Blackbirds in London, white, 64, 123
- — proportional numbers of, 122
- Booth, Mr. Charles, as to ‘roughs,’ 279
- Bostell Woods and Heath, 226
- — — bird life in, 227, 230
- Bread-eating by the crow, 45
- — by the gull, 148
- Breeding places, need of, in central parks, 163, 179
- Brockwell Park, 235
- Buckhurst Hill, white owl at, 166
- Caen Wood, Nature’s balance in, 326
- Camberwell Cemetery, 233
- Carrion crow, as domestic pet, 48
- — — as mouser, 49
- — — as practical joker, 50
- Carrion crows in London, 32
- — — mock battle of, 33
- — — daily flight of, 42
- — — modification of feeding habits, 44
- — — picking food from the river, 46
- — — visits of, to the Zoological Gardens, 175
- Cat, a, on a Battersea island, 291
- Cathedrals, Æsthetic value of daws to, 53, 264
- Cats, need of their exclusion from bird preserves, 55, 274
- — — former rookery in, 77-82
- — — a stranger’s first view of, 78
- — — destruction of trees in, 79-85
- — — Matthew Arnold on, 161
- — — owls in, 165, 274
- Kestrels at Hackney Marsh, 206
- Kew Gardens, 265
- — — bird life in, 267
- Kilburn, open spaces in, 172
- Kimber, Sergeant, his experiments in Clissold Park, 309
- Kingfisher in Battersea Park, 293
- — suggestion for encouragement of, 322
- Kite, its former office as scavenger, 2
- — destruction of last nest of, 121
- Lambeth Palace, skylarks in grounds of, 144
- — — white owl at, 166
- Lea River, swans on the, 205
- — — former fishing in the, 206
- Leg of Mutton Pond, moorhens on the, 180
- Lethal chamber suggested for cats, 300
- ‘London,’ ambiguity of the term, 2
- London, toleration of, by birds, 275
- — absorption of country by, 286
- London districts:
- East, 192
- North and North-west, 172
- South, 216
- South-east, 218
- South-west, 237
- West, 156
- London fields, 194
- Longevity of birds, 110, 324
- Macaulay, T. B., recollections of Clapham Common, 244
- Magpie, rarity of, in London, 20
- — fate of last pair at Hampstead, 22
- Mallard, imperfect domestication of, 38
- — nesting in trees, 39
- Mansfield, Lord, birds in his grounds, 178, 181
- Marsh lands by the Thames, 210
- Melford, Mr. Mark, daws rescued by, 59
- — Mrs., her tame jackdaw, 59-63
- Middlesex, remains of primÆval forest of, 184
- Migration, as seen in London, 129-133
- Minet, Mr. William, Myatt’s Fields given by, 219
- Missel-thrush at Kew, 267
- — possible reintroduction of, 318
- Moat, the, at Bishop’s Park, Fulham, 251
- Moat-hen, early name for moorhen, 94
- Moorhens, the, in London, 94
- — decorative tastes of, 96
- — their dislike of dabchicks, 100
- — their autumnal movements, 138
- — on Hampstead Heath, 180
- — half-grown, as parent’s assistants, 181
- Moule, Mr. E. C. H.
ington, 221
- — as to moat at Fulham, 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 encouragement of kingfishers, 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 Bec, 246
- — Graveney, 248
- Tower of London, ravens at the, 27
- — — — 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 stunted by smoke, 196
- — lopping of, at Greenwich, 224
- — rooks driven away by mutilation of, 71, 77, 81
- Tristram-Valentine, the late Mr., on the starling in London, 126
- — on gulls in London, 145
- Tuck, Mr. W. H., on the Kensington crows, 42
- Turtle-dove, possible introduction of, 314
- Vesper songs of birds, 115
- Victoria Park, 194, 195
- — — singing lessons to chaffinches 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, PRINTED BY
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