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LONDONS SEA GULL VISITORS Londons winter visitors the sea gulls have arrived particularly early this year Never since the hard winter of 1S95 first impelled them high up the river and hitherto unknown regions of parks and private gardens have the birds omitted to make their yearly call to the Serpentine and Kensington gardens round pond On the river of course the gulls single or in flights have been regular habitues for many years perhaps centuries Feeding the gulls from the bridges is a favorite occupation for many a Londoner or rather it used to be for now the feeding of birds is forbidden on the ground of waste by the defense of the realm regu ¬ lations The gulls will have to shift for them ¬ selves this winter and Londoners reputation for hospitality will suffer accordingly in the bird world Christian Science Monitor
