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(3) 65 beans; (4) 76 beans; (5) 87 beans; (6) 75 

 acorns; (7) 139 beech-nuts, a few grains of wheat, 

 and a small white slug, Limax agrestis ; (8) 46 

 horse-beans, as many field-pease, and a few elm- 

 buds ; (9) 1840 green seed-pods with calyx attached 

 of Veronica Buxhaumii ; (10) 13 shells of Helix 

 caperata; (11) Several shot on March 9 were 

 crammed with leaves of Lesser Celandine; (12) 

 llie crop of one shot by the late Canon Atkinson 

 of Danby in Cleveland burst on falling and dis- 

 played half a pint of holly-berries ("Forty Years in 

 a Moorland Parish," p. 345). 



Wood Pigeons sometimes cast up " pellets " like 

 owls and other birds of prey, but probably only after 

 eating certain kinds of food, as is the case with 

 Rooks {Zool, 1887, pp. 193, 235). 



In very hot weather Wood Pigeons (as well as 

 house-pigeons) may be seen alighting occasionally 

 on the surface of water to drink, and after a few 

 seconds flying off again [Field, June 26 and July 3, 

 1875). Large numbers of Wood Pigeons are netted 

 on migration in the Pyrenees [Field, Dec. 8, 1883; 

 Zool, 1885, p. 185; Field, Dec. 17, 1887), and 

 Turtledoves are similarly taken in the Medoc [Fields 

 May 20, 1899). Decoys for shooting pigeons 

 (Badminton Library, vol. " Shooting," p. 230). Lord 

 Walsingham's bag of 185 Wood Pigeons [Field, 

 Jan. 10, and Feb. 7 and 14, 1891). Albino Wood 

 Pigeons [Field, Nov. 3, 10, 17, 24, 1894). Disease 

 in Wood Pigeons [Field, Nov. 23 and 30, and Dec. 

 7, 1895; Zool, 1896, p. 260). 



