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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

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each, but, taking them as they come,singly, in groups and chains, to touch or dwellonly on those points that chiefly concern us—their characters, comparative advantages, andtheir needs, with regard to bird life. Beginningwith the central parks and other parks situatedin the West district, we will then pass to theNorth-west and North districts, and so on untilthe circle of the metropolis has been completed. The central parks, Kensington Gardens andHyde Park, Green Park, and St. Jamess Park,contain respectively 274, 360, 55, and 60 acres—in round numbers 750 acres. Add to thisHolland Park, the enclosed meadow-like groundsadjoining Kensington Palace, Hyde Park Gardens,St. Georges burial-ground, and BuckinghamPalace Gardens, and we get altogether a total ofabout nine hundred to one thousand acres ofalmost continuous green country, extendingfrom Hiuh Street, Kensington, to Westminster.Tliis very large area (for to the eyes of the flyingbird it must appear as one) is favourably situated
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SURVEY OF THE PABKS : WEST LONDON 157 to attract and support a very considerableamount of Ijird life. At its eastern extremitywe see that it is close to the river, along whichbirds are apt to travel; while three miles and ahalf away, at its other end, it is again near theThames, where the river makes a great bendnear Hammersmith, and not very distant fromthe more or less green country about Acton. There is no doubt that a majority of thesummer visitants and wanderers generally thatappear in the central parks come throughHolland Park, as they are usually first observedin the shrubberies and trees at KensingtonPalace. Holland Park, owing to its privacy andfine old trees, is a favourite resort of wild birds,and is indeed a better sanctuary than any publicpark in London. From the palace shrubberiesthe new-comers creep in along the Flower Walk,the Serpentine, and finally by way of the GreenPark to St. Jamess Park. But they do notstay to breed, the place not being suitable forsuch a purpose

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