. Birds in London . be heard in this park with morevoices in it than would be heard anywhere inthe country. The birds are fed and shelteredand protected when breeding, and they areconsequently al)undant and happy. Whatmakes all this music the more remarkable is thenoisiness of the neighbourhood. The park issurrounded by railway lines ; trains rush by withshrieks and earth-shaking thunder every fewmoments, and the adjoining thoroughfare oiSeven Sisters Eoad is full of the loud noises oftraffic. Here, more than anywhere in London,you are reminded of Miltons description of thejarring and discorda
. Birds in London . be heard in this park with morevoices in it than would be heard anywhere inthe country. The birds are fed and shelteredand protected when breeding, and they areconsequently al)undant and happy. Whatmakes all this music the more remarkable is thenoisiness of the neighbourhood. The park issurrounded by railway lines ; trains rush by withshrieks and earth-shaking thunder every fewmoments, and the adjoining thoroughfare oiSeven Sisters Eoad is full of the loud noises oftraffic. Here, more than anywhere in London,you are reminded of Miltons description of thejarring and discordant grating sounds at tlieopening of liells gates; and one would imagine NORTH-WEST AND NORTH LONDON 189 that ill such an atmosphere the birds wouldbecome crazed, and sing, if they sang at all, likesweet bells janorled, out of tune and harsh. Hutall this noise troubles them not at all; they sing-as sweetly here, with voices just as pure andrapturous, as in any quiet country lane or DABCHICK FEEDING ITS YOUNG The Other most common wild birds are therobin, tits, starling, dabchick, and moorhen. Thechaffinch, greenfinch, hedge-sparrow, and wrenare less common. Half a mile to the east of Finsbury Parkwe have CTissold Park (-33 acres), comparativelysmall but singularly attractive. This is one of 190 BIBDS IN LONDON the old and true parks that have remained toLondon, and, Uke Eavenscourt and Brockwell,it has an old manor house standing in it; andthis building, looking upon water and avenuesof noble elms and wide green spaces, gives it theappearance of a private domain rather than apublic place. Close by is Abney Park Cemetery,which is now so crammed with corpses as tomake it reasonable to indulge the hope thatbefore long it will be closed as a burial place,only to be re-opened as a breathing spacefor the livimx. And as the distance whichseparates these two spaces is not great, let usindulge the further hope that it may be foundpossible to open a way between them to ma
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