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grounds on the roots of the Pilewort Crowfoot (Ranunculus 
ficaria), for which they were to be seen searching about in 
small flocks. Mr. Dix considered that Ring-doves were more 
numerous in his north-eastern corner of the county than they 
were in the south, and remarks that few persons have any idea 
of the damage they do to turnips and rape during the winter 
months. 
STOCK-DOVE, Columba palumbus.—Resident ; chiefly to be found 
upon the coast. We were informed by Mr. Moore, the head- 
keeper at Picton Castle, that a few pairs of Stock-doves nested 
in some hollow trees in the park, and we believe we saw some 
of the birds one day when we were crossing the park in his 
company. We learn from Mr. C. Jefferys, of Tenby, that 
Stock-doves frequent and nest in the ivy-coloured cliffs near 
that delightful watering-place. We believe that many of the 
Pigeons that frequent the cliffs in the St. David’s district, and 
are generally considered to be Rock-doves, are either Stock- 
doves or escaped farmyard Pigeons. We never detected a 
Stock-dove among our Ring-doves at Stone Hall. 
ROCK-DOVE, Columba livia—Resident. Mr. Tracy, writing fifty 
years ago, stated that a few pairs then nested in the cliffs on the 
coast. But we must state that we have never seen a Pembroke- 
shire specimen of this species, and some eggs sent to us from 
St. David’s were evidently too large for those of the Rock- 
dove. However, from what Mr. Mortimer Propert tells us, we 
believe that there may be a pair or two of genuine Rock-doves 
nesting in the caves on Ramsey Island. We have ourselves, on 
various visits to that most romantic and charming island, seen 
many Pigeons flying along the cliffs, but were never able to get 
sufficiently near them to be certain what they were. Mr. E. W. 
H. Blagg, of Cheadle, Staffordshire, who was staying at Tenby in 
the summer of 1887, assures us that he saw Rock-doves in the 
neighbourhood of the Stack Rocks, and also at the ‘‘ Huntsman’s 
Leap,” a name given to a deep fissure in the cliffs, where there is 
a sheer descent of a hundred feet or more to the beach below. 
