OF SELBORNE. 139 
LETTER XLIV- 
Selborne, Nov. 30, 1780. 
Dear Sir,—Every incident that occasions a re-« 
newal of our correspondence will ever be pleasing 
and agreeable to me. 
As to the wild Woop-ricEon, the enas or vinago 
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of Ray, lam much of your mind, and see no reason 
for making it the origin of the common house-dove ; 
but suppose those that have advanced that opinion 
may have been misled by another appellation, often 
given to the enas, which is that of stock-dove. 
Unless the stock-dove in the winter varies greatly 
in manners from itself in summer, no species seems 
more unlikely to be domesticated, and to make a 
house-dove. We very rarely see the latter settle 
on trees at all, nor does it ever haunt the woods ; 
but the former, as long as it stays with us, from 
November perhaps to February, lives the same 
wild life with the ring-dove, palumbus torquatus ; 
