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the use to which the nails were applied. The nails, 
when removed, filled a watering-can holding about two 
gallons, one of the nests containing more than fourteen 
pounds weight.” 
The Stock Dove (C. enas) is not uncommon, mingling, 
in the winter more especially, with the small flocks of 
ring doves. I never found the nest on the ground, 
where it is stated to be frequently placed; but I knew 
a very large and almost globular mass of ivy in the fork 
of an ash tree, in Blythe-corner Wood, in the close 
recesses of which a pair of stock doves reared their 
young for several years together. I do not think this 
Species is so numerous with us as the preceding one, but 
it is still plentiful. 
The latter word cannot, however, be applied to the 
Turtle Dove (C. turtur), one or two specimens being all 
that I have noted, though some have been killed in 
other parts of the county. I have never known it nest 
with us, and it can only be considered a rare straggler. 
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