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moment I move away, begins picking up the crumbs which I 

 fling down for him. Wrens, too, are everywhere in the woods, 

 the fields, and on the heather. 



November I8tk. T saw to-day a white wood-pigeon on the 

 same farm near Elgin where I saw one several times two years ago. 



November 28th. I find the crops of the wood-pigeons full of 

 the seed of the dock, although there is a great extent of newly 

 sown wheat in every direction. 



December 1st. The wood-pigeon which I kill have in their 

 crops turnip leaves, the seed of ragweed, docks, a little wheat, and 

 a number of small potatoes as large as marbles, or larger. 



December *7th. Both yesterday and to-day it happened that 

 I wounded a partridge not far from the quarry wood, and on 

 both occasions a peregrine falcon struck the bird in the air and 

 carried it away before my eyes. 



December l^th. Cold day. I saw a white wood-pigeon to- 

 day near Pitgaveny. 



