Why did these?
So much for S.Mark's Square by night.

With thousands of persons, to think of S.Mark's Square by day is chiefly to think of pigeons.

Many a visitor to Venice who cannot remember the details of a single painting there can show you a photograph of herself with pigeons on her shoulders and arms.

Photographers and dealers in maize are here all day to effect these pretty conjunctions; but the Kodak has seriously impaired their profits.

The birds are smaller than our London monsters and not quite so brilliantly burnished.