NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE. 113 
Pee eee Rk XLT 
TO THE SAME, 
SELBORNE, lVov. 302%, 1780. 
DEAR SIR,—Every incident that occasions a renewal of our 
correspondence will ever be pleasing and agreeable to me. 
As to the wild wood-pigeon, the Zzas, or Vinago, of Ray, I am 
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 Czas, which is that of stock-dove. 
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 an 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 
torguatus ; frequents coppices and groves, supports itself chiefly by 
mast, and delights to roost in the <allest beeches. Could it be 
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