in which 72 full-sized acorns were taken from the crop 

 of one of this species, and I have myself taken 87 horse- 

 beans and some fragments of turnip-tops from another. 

 My views about this bird are that it should be strictly 

 protected between March and August, but shot down 

 to the utmost during the rest of the year. No better 

 sport can be found in England than shooting Wood- 

 Pigeons in a breeze of wind, as they career over a small 

 opening in a wood or thick plantation, and their flesh, 

 if properly treated, is, in my opinion, excellent. 



