94 BRITISH BIRDS. 



Food of the Wood-Pigeon. — The crops of two Wood- 

 Pigeons {Columha palumhus) sent to the Editor of the Field 

 by Colonel C. B. Reynardson, were found to be full of the 

 caterpillars of two species of moths, the dotted border {Hy- 

 hernia progemmaria) and the mottled umber [H. defoliaria). 

 Both species are said by the Editor to be destructive to forest- 

 trees, and Colonel Reynardson remarks that he has often 

 found Wood-Pigeons to be full of these pests in May and 

 June [Field, 18,vi.,1910, p. 1098). 



Stone-Curlews in Bedfordshire and Cumberland. — 

 Mr. J. Steele Elliott saw a single (Edicnemus scolopax on May 

 loth, 1910, at Sandy. The bird used to breed in Bedford- 

 shire, but since 1890 it appears not to have done so, and indeed 

 only to have visited the county twice {ZooL, 1910, p. 227). 

 One is also recorded as seen on March 27th, 1909, by Mr. 

 D. Losh Thorpe near Carlisle {t.c, 1909, p. 197, and' 1910, 

 p. 187). 



Black Terns in Yorkshire.— On May 20th, 1910, Mr. 

 Oxley Grabham saw six Hydrochelidon nigra near York, in a 

 locality which is visited every year by this species [N^at., 1910, 

 p. 278). 



