in Great Britain during the Nesting-season. 49 
Shropshire, and perhaps in North Wales (Eyton). The nest 
has been found both in East and West Yorkshire, but hardly, I 
believe, beyond the 54th degree of latitude. The bird seems 
to be most numerous in some of the midland and eastern coun- 
ties of England, and has not been observed in either Scotland 
or Ireland. Mr. J. F. Brockholes, who has taken especial pains 
to identify the species, tells me that the Stock-Dove breeds re- 
gularly in Cheshire aud South Lancashire, where the nest is 
placed in fir-trees and ivy. The Rev. O. Pickard-Cambridge 
describes the bird as building in exactly the same kind of 
locality, among matted ivy, close to the trunks of cedars and fir- 
trees, more often in the holes of old trees where limbs have been 
broken off. 
Cotumpga Livia (Briss.). Rock-Dove. 
Provinces I. [II.] V.-VIII. X. XII.—XVII. 
Subprovinces 1, 2, 3, (4), 18, 17, 18, 20, 21 ?, 22, 23, 25, 
26-38. 
Lat. 50°-61°. “ Atlantic ” (or perhaps “ Scottish ””) type. 
Far more numerous in the north ; and on the west than on the 
east coast of Scotland. 
Commencing from the south of England, the Rock-Dove used 
to breed formerly at Purbeck (Rev. H. Austin); but there is no 
direct evidence of its having ever bred in the Isle of Wight. 
Mr. E. H. Rodd includes the Rock-Dove in his list as_breed- 
ing occasionally in Cornwall. The Rev. M. A. Mathews has ob- 
served it building in the cliffs about Lynton. Mr. W. D. Crotch 
reports it as breeding in Somersetshire. The bird is said to be 
common in Gloucester and Monmouth. 
Sir W. Jardine gives Caldey Island as a locality, and Mr. 
Tracy marks the bird as breeding in Pembrokeshire. The Rev. 
H. Harpur Crewe has observed it breeding in Denbighshire, and 
there are probably several other localities im South and North 
Wales. 
Mr. J. F. Brockholes tells me that there is a colony at Beeston 
Castle, Cheshire, and that he once noticed a pair frequenting 
the high banks of the Mersey during the breeding-season. 
Mr. C. S. Gregson informs me that the Rock-Dove breeds at 
