NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 43 



DECEMBER. 



Beech-nuts; leaves of turnip, white ck)ver, and cranes-bill; grain, 

 wheat, oats, barley, and tares ; decayed potatoes ; seeds of wild 

 mustard. 



JANUARY. 



Beech-nuts ; leaves of turnip, white clover, common cabbage, and 

 cranes-bill ; decayed potatoes ; seeds of wild oats, wild mustard, 

 and Venus' comb ; tubers of the lesser celandine ; berries of the 

 ivy, hawthorn, and holly, — the latter I only found during the 

 snowstorm of 1860. 



FEBRUARY. 

 Beech-nuts; leaves of Swedish turnip, white clover, cranes-bill, and 

 cabbage; seeds of wild oats, Venus' comb, common knot-grass, 

 spotted persicaria, broad-leaved dock, and wild mustard ; tubers 

 of the lesser celandine ; grain of various sorts, especially towards 

 the end of the month. 



IklARCH. 



During this month, and to nearly the end of April, the food 

 consists almost entirely of grain, wheat, oats, and barley, together 

 with beans, peas, and tares. I have, however, found occasionally 

 seeds of common knot grass, common dock, and wild mustard ; 

 leaves of white clover, cranes-bill, and ribwort plantain; tubers 

 of lesser celandine. 



APRIL. 



Grain, oats, barley, and wheat, — barley being the favourite, — 

 tares; occasional leaves of white clover, and cranes-bill; leaf and 

 flower of ivy-leaved speedwell ; and in the end of the month the 

 leaf-bud of the beech-tree, of which they are very fond. 



MAY. 



I have had little opportunity of making observations in this 

 month, but may mention the flower-bud and leaf of common 

 chickweed, and the leaf-bud of the beech-tree, as two of their 

 principal articles of diet. 



