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[26]伊丽莎白一世（Elizabeth I，1533–1603），英国女王，英王亨利八世与安妮·波林之女，都铎王朝最后一位君主，1558年至1603年在位，统治了近半个世纪，史称“黄金时代”。在位期间保持了英格兰的统一，使英格兰成为欧洲最强大的国家之一，英国文化也在此期间达到了一个顶峰。终身未嫁，被称为“童贞女王”。——译者注
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[27]参考E. L. Jones, The Bird Pests of British Agriculture in Recent Centuries, Agricultural History Review, no. 20 (1972): 111。
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[28]参考N. F. Ticehurst, On the Former Abundance of the Kite, Buzzard, and Raven in Kent, British Birds: an illustrated magazine devoted to the birds on the British list 1920, 35。
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[29]参考Ratcliffe, The Raven 20。
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[30]参考Derek Wilson, The Tower: The Tumultuous History of the Tower of London from 1078 (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1979) 208–10。
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[31]参考Impey and Parnell, The Tower of London: The Official Illustrated History 91–92, 111。
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[32]参考Jones, ‘The Bird Pests of British Agriculture in Recent Centuries’, 9。
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[33]参考Jeremy Rifkin, Biosphere Politics: A New Consciousness for a New Century (New York: Crown, 1991) 40–43。
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[34]参考Ratcliffe, The Raven 82–86。
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[35]参考Picard, Restoration London: Engaging Anecdotes and Tantalizing Trivia from the Most Magnificant and Renowned City in Europe 14–16, Richard B. Schwarz, Daily Life in Johnson’s London (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983) 19–22。
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[36]参考Robert Smith, The Universal Directory for Taking Alive and Destroying Rats, and All Other Kinds of Four-Footed and Winged Vermin (London: privately published, 1769) 208–10。
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[37]参考Glegg, A History of the Birds of Middlesex 2。
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[38]参考LNHS, Checklist of Birds in the London Area (2004 [cited 6 January 2004]); 网络资料请见：http://www.users.global-net.co. uk/~Inhsweb/checklistI.htm。
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乌鸦之城：伦敦，伦敦塔与乌鸦的故事 [:1706373981]
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乌鸦之城：伦敦，伦敦塔与乌鸦的故事 05 绞刑架的四周
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三只渡鸦停在树上，
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它们漆黑无比。
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其中一只问同伴：
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“我们的早餐在哪里？”
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“在那片碧绿的田野里，
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躺着一位被杀下盾的骑士……”
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——英国民谣
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