Abstract
A SHORT article in the May number of British Birds (p. 355) reveals unexpected variety of bird life in the heart of a great city. The presence of gulls has become commonplace, and it is not surprising that birds on migration should be heard passing overhead, like the curlews mentioned. But the settling of exhausted landrails and a woodcock, the appearance of young cuckoos in several gardens, of wheatears in Regent's Park, of a black-necked grebe in Kensington Gardens, a cormorant on the cross of St. Paul's Cathedral, and a pair of kestrels nesting in the belfry of St. Paul's School, Hammersmith Road—these are things which must have surprised and delighted the fortunate observers.
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