An entry is quotedArchived 1 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine in The Book of Duck Decoys, their construction, management, and history, Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey, Bt., Chapter 9, page 127: ...Evelyn's Diary, 29 March 1665. He says, "I went to St. James' Park, where I saw various animals, and examined the throat of ye 'Onocratylus,' or Pelican, a fowle between a Stork and a Swan, a melancholy waterfowl brought from Astracan by the Russian Ambassador; it was diverting to see how he would toss up and turn a flat fish, plaice or flounder, to get it right into its gullet..."
This entry from 18 August 1661 mentions "and then to walk in St. James’s Park, and saw great variety of fowl which I never saw before".
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Rictor Norton, "A History of Gay Sex", Gay History and Literature, 24 November 2006. Ironically, this street is mentioned in Somerset Maugham's semi-autobiographical masterpiece, "Of Human Bondage," when the novel's protagonist, Philip, decides to marry. Maugham, of course, was gay. Accessed 1 December 2010.
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An entry is quotedArchived 1 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine in The Book of Duck Decoys, their construction, management, and history, Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey, Bt., Chapter 9, page 127: ...Evelyn's Diary, 29 March 1665. He says, "I went to St. James' Park, where I saw various animals, and examined the throat of ye 'Onocratylus,' or Pelican, a fowle between a Stork and a Swan, a melancholy waterfowl brought from Astracan by the Russian Ambassador; it was diverting to see how he would toss up and turn a flat fish, plaice or flounder, to get it right into its gullet..."
