A. COLUMBA (NAS. 
COLUMBA (NAS, Linneus. 
STOCK-DOVE. 
§ 2818. One.—Rockingham Forest, Northants. April, 1842. 
§ 2819. Zwo.—Winefield, Derbyshire, 4 April, 1844. 
I found these two eggs in the same nest ina hole of the wall 
sheltered by ivy at that part of the ruins of Wingfield Manor House 
to which the cow climbed. The nest consisted of a few larch-twigs. 
I saw the bird fly off. The eggs had been sat on for two or three 
days. They breed in numbers in the rocks about Matlock. I did 
not see one Rock-Dove on the High Tor, though I went to the top 
on purpose to look for them. Iam inclined to think the Rock-Dove 
is never found inland. A pair of Stock-Doves are breeding in a 
Dove-cote hung in a tree before the windows at Mr. IF. Robinson’s, 
Widmerpool. There was one egg in the nest on the 13th April. 
A pair of Fantail-Pigeons have laid in an adjoining hole. The 
Stock-Dove’s egg had a brown tinge and was of the shape of my 
specimen from Rockingham Forest. These two specimens differ 
singularly in shape and colour. 
15 April.—I saw several Stock-Doves on the cliff at Clifton Lane 
End [Notts]. My father says that his father used to say the blue 
Wood-Pigeon was common at Wollaton and Strelley. The Stock- 
Dove’s egg is never of so pure a white as that of the Ring-Dove and 
Rock-Dove (7). Cutts informs me that the Stock-Dove builds in 
rabbit-holes at Clifton, also that it is abundant about Worksop. He 
has found several nests in the same pollard oak. 
[The difference in shape of these two specimens is remarkable, but I 
pereeive none in colour, which perhaps is not surprising after nearly sixty 
yeais. | 
§ 2820. Zwo.—Yoxhall Lodge, Staffordshire, 1851. From 
Mr. John Evans. 
Mr. Evans himself took these out of a hollow oak, from which 
he had seen the bird fly on the preceding day. The tree is in an old 
corner of Needwood Forest. 
