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Identifier: birdsinlondon00huds (find matches) Title: Birds in London Year: 1898 (1890s) Authors: Hudson, W. H. (William Henry), 1841-1922 Subjects: Birds -- England London Publisher: London, New York, Bombay, Longmans, Green and co. Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: AW Rarity of the daw in London—Pigeons and daws compared—^Esthetic value of the daw as a cathedral bird—KensingtonPalace daws ; their disposition and habits—Friendship withrooks—Wandering daws at Clissold Park—Solitary daws—Mr. Mark Melfords birds—Rescue of a hundred daws—Thestrange history of an egg-stealing daw—White daws—Whiteravens—Willughbys speculations—A suggestion. It is somewhat curious to find that the jackdawis an extremely rare bird in London—that, infact, with the exception of a small colony at onespot, he is almost non-existent. At EichmondPark, where pheasants (and the gamekeeperstraditions) are preserved, he was sometimes shotin the breeding season ; l)ut in the metropolis,so far as I know, he has never been persecuted.Yet there are few birds, certainly no member ofthe crow family, seemingly so w^ell adapted to aLondon life as lliis species. Throughout thekinfrdom he is a tamihar town bird ; in oneEnglish cathedral ovei- a hundred pairs have Text Appearing After Image: PIGEONS AT THE LAW COURTS THE LONDON DAW 53 their iiests ; and in that city and in many othertowns the bird^ are accustomed to come to thegardens and window-sills, to be fed on scrapsby their human neighbours and friends. While the daw^ has diminished wdth us, andis near to vanishing, the common pigeon—thedomestic variety of the blue rock—has increasedexcessively in recent years. Large colonies
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