LONDON BIRDS.
The yearly reports of the birds seen in London parks have accustomed us to regard London as a sanctuary (from which even Rima cannot scare the braver visitors) ; but do we yet realize how they penetrate to the very centre ? A country- man might well envy M. W., the writer of the following note, though he lives in King's Bench Walk. On the question of pheasants in London he writes: "I saw one strutting about the little garden next the Temple Station on the Embankment. In my chambers in the Temple I often hear owls (especially just before dawn), and this summer, one remained for a long tinv_t on a tree just outside my bedroom. Seagulls, of course, I can feed from my window. Last. spring a couple of wild ducks (broods of which can be seen floating with the tide up and down the Thames) roosted one night by the little pool recently made in the Middle Temple garden."
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