LONDON PIGEONS.
The favourite haunt of woodpigeons in London is Kensington Gardens—at least in winter. They move there about this data from the Green and other Parks ; and no one knows why. Now the other day one of the birds met with a mishap : its crop was examined and found to be full of acorns. We all know that acorns are the favourite food of pigeons. They will pouch as many as a score, a feat one would have thought quite impossible ; but there seems no limit to the elasticity of the 'pigeon's crop. The problem, however, is not their taste in acorns, but the discovery of them in Kensington. Where did the pigeon find them among the elms of the Gardens ? I suppose the most likely explanation is that the birds came in from, say, Richmond Park, where such food is abundant and all birds flourish.
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