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(365) BIRDS of INNER LONDON. DURING 1936 Two Species (365) BIRDS OF INNER LONDON. BY A. HOLTE MACPHERSON. ADDITIONAL SPECIES. DURING 1936 two species occurred which make additions to the list published in this magazine in 1929 (Vol. XXII, pp. 222-244) and subsequently extended.* The Merlin {Falco c. assalon) seen on August 24th, 1936, by Mrs. E. MacAlister in Kensington Gardens has already been recorded (antea, p. 174). Miss Mary Rew, a very careful observer, informs me that on January 17th she saw a Little Gull (Larus minutus) in Regent's Park. It was an immature bird and was swimming among a number of Black-headed Gulls, so that Miss Rew had good opportunities for comparison. [This bird is an addition to this list since it has not been recorded from Inner London during the present century. The last recorded occurrence was on February 15th, 1895, over the Thames at Charing Cross during the great frost when the river was blocked with ice (J. E. Harting, Zoologist, 1895, p. no). It is an interesting fact that this species was introduced to the British list through a specimen obtained near Chelsea]. ADDITIONAL NOTES IN 1936. A young Jackdaw {COICBUS m. spermologus), being fed by its parent, was seen on June 16th in Kensington Gardens by Miss M. van Oostveen. This was the first young bird reported from this small colony for some years. The visit of a party of Bramblings {Fringilla montifringitta) to Primrose Hill in March has been recorded by Mr. D. Seth-Smith (B.B., Vol. XXIX, p. 357). Mr. C. W. Baxter observed a Grey Wagtail {Motacilla c. cinerea) on several occasions by the Serpentine in October ; on the 20th of this month one was seen in the Zoological Gardens (Mr. D. Seth-Smith) ; and another by Mr. E. M. Nicholson in the neighbourhood of Marsham Street, West­ minster, at intervals from October 24th to November 2nd. A Tree-Creeper (Certhia f, britannica) was noticed in Kensington Gardens by Miss M. van Oostveen on September nth and 16th, and again on November nth. On the first two occasions it was singing. A pair of Marsh-Tits (Parus p. dresseri) was seen by Dr. G. Carmichael Low on February 10th in Kensington Gardens. *For other reports on this subject see Vol. XXIII, pp. 266-268 ; Vol. XXIV, pp. 323-325 ; Vol. XXV, pp. 355-356 ; Vol. XXVI. pp. 292-294 ; Vol. XXVIII, pp. 34-35 and 292-294 ; Vol. XXIX, pp. 345-348. FI 366 BRITISH BIRDS. [VOL. XXX. Sir Cyril Hurcomb observed a Goldcrest (Regulus r. anglorum?) on January 5th by the Flower Walk. A Wood-Warbler (Phyttoscopus s. sibilatrix) was singing in the Dell, Hyde Park, on May 5th (Mr. E. G. Pedler). On January 17th, a party of from 40 to 50 Fieldfares {Turdus pilaris) was seen in Regent's Park (Mr. D. Seth-Smith). Redwings (Turdus m. musicus) were often noticed in January and February. On February 17th Mr. W. G. K. Neale counted 100 in the Green Park. Miss M. Rew saw several Wheatears (CEnanthe a. osnanthe) in Regent's Park on March 28th and during the first week in April. She saw two there on September 10th ; and Mrs. E. MacAlister reported one on the 1st from Kensington Gardens. Two Whinchats (Saxicola r. rubetra) were observed in Regent's Park by Miss M. Rew on April 14th, and another on May 7th. A Redstart (Phcenicurus ph. phcenicurus) was seen by Miss M. Rew in Regent's Park on April 20th, and she heard one singing there on the 26th. Another was noticed by Mr. R. S. R. Fitter on April 21st in Hyde Park ; and one by Mrs. E. MacAlister on September 10th in Kensington Gardens. The male Black Redstart (Phcenicurus 0. gibraltariensis) which frequented Westminster in May and June, and the female of this species which was caught in the Natural History Museum, South Kensington on May 18th, have already been recorded by Mr. E. M. Nicholson (antea, p. 320). Early in the morning of April 25th I watched a Nightingale (Luscina m. megarhyncha) in full song in Kensington Gardens. I had never come across one there before. Miss M. Rew saw a Kingfisher (Alcedo a. ispida) in Regent's Park on August 1st, September 12th and 13th, and a pair there on September nth. Great Spotted Woodpeckers (Dryobates m. anglicus) were observed in Regent's Park and Kensington Gardens. I obtained no evidence of their nesting at their headquarters, the grounds of Holland House, or elsewhere. A pair of Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers (Dryobates m. comminutus) visited Kensington Gardens towards the end of March and stayed for about a month. One was noticed by Mr. C. W. Baxter there on December 22nd. Miss M. Rew reported one on June 20th in Regent's Park. The Cuckoo (Cuculus c. canorus) was seen and heard in Regent's Park by Miss M. Rew and Mr. D. Seth-Smith in May and June. Young birds were noticed there by the VOL. xxx.] BIRDS OF INNER LONDON. 367 former towards the end of July and in August; and in the latter month, by Mr. J. B. Watson in Hyde Park and myself in Kensington Gardens. A Little Owl {Athene n. vidalii) perched on an aviary in the Zoological Gardens on February nth (Mr. D. Seth-Smith) ; and on April 25th, I saw one in Kensington Palace Gardens. A Barn Owl (Tyto a. alba), seen flying across the Strand on October 30th by the late Col. H. W. Madoc, has already been recorded (antea, p. 232). Kestrels (Falco t. tinnunculus) were much in evidence, particularly in Kensington Gardens and Westminster. I have little doubt that early in May there was a nest on the sill of a slit high up on the western tower of the Imperial Institute. On ascending the tower, however, I found that the slit was filled with a fixed sheet of almost opaque glass. During the last few years there has more than once been evidence of Kestrels nesting on the Victoria Tower, Westminster. This year Lord Esme Gordon-Lennox, who lives in the Palace of Westminster, knew the site of the nest and found a young Kestrel on one of his window sills. (" Field," August 6th, 1936.) A Sparrow-Hawk (Accipiter n. nisus) was seen in Regent's Park on January 16th, and another flew over the Zoological Gardens on November 28th (Mr. D. Seth-Smith). Major W. M. Beckwith had a good view of two Sparrow-Hawks on September 25th ; they flew over the Green Park and settled on a tree near the Naval and Military Club. Much public interest was aroused towards the end of March by the appearance at the Zoological Gardens of a wild Heron (Ardea c. cinerea) bringing nesting materials to the top of an aviary which contained a female. She was released early in April, and the pair apparently completed the nest on the aviary, but they disappeared before the end of the month. Two Scaups (Nyroca m. mania) visited the Round Pond, Kensington Gardens. The first, a drake, remained there from March 13th to 27th ; the other, a female, was seen on two days at the end of December. On April 27th, Mr. E. M. Nicholson saw seven adult Cormorants (Phalacrocorax c. carbo) flying fairly high in V- formation over St. James's Park. They disappeared over the Green Park. These were no doubt wild birds. They did not appear to notice the Cormorants in the Park below them, of which Mr. Nicholson at the time counted five. 368 BRITISH BIRDS. [VOL. XXX. Great Crested Grebes (Podiceps c. cristatus) appeared on the Round Pond, or Serpentine in March, April, May and December. A Black-necked Grebe {Podiceps n. nigricollis) in full breeding plumage was noticed on the Round Pond on April 21st by Dr. G. Carmichael Low and Mr. E. G. Pedler. Two days later it flew to the Serpentine and then moved to the Long Water, where it remained for some days. I last saw it on May 4th. Little Grebes {Podiceps r. ruficollis) visited the lake in St. James's Park at various times in the early autumn. Miss M. van Oostveen noticed a Turtle-Dove {Streptopelia t. turtur) on May 5th in Kensington Gardens. A small party of these birds appeared in St. James's Park on August 3rd and stayed for over a fortnight (Mr. C. S. Bayne), an occur­ rence without precedent in my experience of London. Large flocks of Lapwings {Vanellus vanellus) flew over Regent's Park on January 17th and February 17th (Miss M. Rew). Two Common Sandpipers {Tringa hypoleucos) were seen in Regent's Park on April 25th by Miss M. Rew, and Miss M. van Oostveen reported another by the Long Water on May 5th. During the autumn migration, four were seen on July 27th in St. James's Park (Mr. C. S. Bayne). Curlew {Numenius a. arquata) flying over Regent's Park were heard by Miss M. Rew in the early hours of March 15th and June 29th. Others were heard over Westminster by Mr. E. M. Nicholson in the early hours of July 29th, September 1st and 10th. On the second occasion he also identified the notes of Dunlin {Calidris a. alpina) on passage. Two Curlew were also heard and seen flying over Campden Hill on August 7th by Miss M. van Oostveen. Mr. D. Seth-Smith informs me that a Woodcock {Scolopax r. rusticola), apparently uninjured, was picked up on May 28th in Edgware Road. Another flew by Mr. Guy Snow, an experienced game shot, on November 16th in Hyde Park.
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