42, Forest Birds. 
CHAPTER, ITV. 
THE WOODPIGEON OR RING- 
DOVE. 
(Columba palumbus.) 
ONDON is hardly the place in which we should 
expect to find a shy and wary bird taking up 
its abode. Nevertheless, the Woodpigeon, usually 
so wild, has during the last few years come to 
London in considerable numbers for the summer 
months. We can only suppose that it has been 
clever enough to find out that it is as safe in our 
great metropolis as anywhere else, and indeed 
perhaps more so. 
This bird breeds in several parts of London, and 
notably in St. James’s Park, while in the present 
year (1894) there was a nest in a tree overhanging 
the pavement in the great thoroughfare of Piccadilly. 

