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occasionally stated to have been seen frequenting the 

 chalk pits and other similar situations in the south of 

 England, but in every case I have discovered the bird 

 to be the Stock Dove. In some parts of the north I 

 have seen Wild Pigeons, of sandy and other light 

 colours, living among the rocks as wild and untamed as 

 the present species. 



The young were taken from a cave on Longa Island, 

 off the west coast of Eoss-shire, in May, 1868, the old 

 birds being killed at the Cromarty Kocks, in June, 

 1869. 



The case is copied from a sketch taken of the spot 

 where the young were procured. 



STOCK DOVE. 



Case 199. 



The Stock Dove is common in the south of England^, 

 and I have repeatedly observed them in large flocks in 

 the east of Norfolk, feeding on the pea-fields, during 

 the summer months. 



They appear to breed in a variety of situations^ 

 holes in old timber being, as most authors state, their 

 favourite nesting-place ; they, however, occasionally 

 rear their young on the branches of a tree, like the 

 Ring Dove, at times in a rabbit burrow, and also in 

 the face of a cliff. 



The young birds (or squabs, as I believe juveniles 

 of the Pigeon tribe ought properly to be termed) were 

 taken from a nest in every respect resembling that of 

 a Wood Pigeon, near the top of a small spruce fir tree 

 of about thirty feet in height, in the neighbourhood of 

 Brighton, in June, 1874 ; the male and female being 



