?8 



My Garden Summer- Seat. 



they would rank as most dangerous enemies of the 

 agriculturist. They are keen, however, at certain 

 seasons for some kinds of turnip-tops and also of turnips, 

 which, if holes have already been made through the 

 rough outside skin by rabbit or hare, they will almost 

 entirely scoop out. The thought of this rouses the 

 farmer's ire, which is not easily allayed. 



They are fond of beech-nuts, and will go long 



SENTINEL WOODPIGEON. 



distances to get them, and some observers say that, 

 like rooks and pheasants, they will gorge themselves 

 with acorns, and that the art they show, soft-billed 

 though they are, in detaching the nut from the cup, 

 and splitting the core, is astonishing. They will set 

 the acorn in position, and strike it with their bills with 

 the utmost precision. 



It seems to me that they show traces of a conscience, 



