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west of that place, on the road between Tangier and Tetuan, 
it would have been easy to shoot a hundred in a day, they 
were in such numbers and so excessively tame. Two or three 
which we shot to eat, had their crops full of the tuberous root 
of some weed which had been ploughed up and was lying in 
quantities about the fallow fields. During the same month, 
about three years previously, I noticed considerable numbers 
about Larache ; but there they were much more wild, though 
not so shy as in England or Andalucia. In the latter country, 
about Gibraltar, a few pairs nest in the Cork- wood and other 
wooded districts ; they are most abundant during the winter 
months, though I never saw any great quantity. 
190. CoLUMBA cENAs, Linn. The Stock-Dove. 
Moorish. Hamam el Berri. 
The Stock-Dove is neither mentioned by Favier nor Mr. 
Drake as occurring in Morocco. I found it near the Foudak 
at the same time and place that the Wood-pigeons were so 
abundant. It is sufficiently common to be known to the 
Moors there by the above-mentioned name, which, by the 
way, is the same as that used for the next species, C. livia. 
They were in some numbers; and I shot one or two for iden- 
tification, being further informed by the Moors that they 
nested in holes of trees. They evidently were breeding at that 
time ', but we failed to discover a nest during the very short 
period that we remained there. I also noticed the Stock- 
Dove in April near Larache. On the Spanish side of the 
Straits, I only observed this species upon one occasion, in the 
spring, near Gibraltar. 
The absence of the white patch on the wing will often serve 
to distinguish it, when flying, from the Ring-Dove, C cenas, 
independently of its smaller size, while the absence of the 
white rump and larger size equally distinguish it from the 
smaller Rock- Dove, C. livia — not that the latter species is 
often met with in the same locality. 
191. CoLUMBA LIVIA, Linn. The Rock-Dove. 
Moorish. Hamam el Berri. Spanish. Zurita. 
" This is the most common of the Pigeons about Tangier, 
