222 Bibliographical Notices. 
Or another instance may be selected relating to the rock-dove, 
vol. li. p. 13 :— 
*« The mention of various places in connexion with this bird induces 
me to remark, though at the expense of the repetition of a few names, 
that nearly as the ring-dove and the rock-dove, distributed in suitable 
localities over the British Islands, are allied, their haunts are very dif- 
ferent ; the former being associated with the tender and the beautiful, 
the latter with the stern and the sublime in nature. The ring-dove 
is most at home in the lordly domain, rich in noble and majestic trees, 
the accumulated growth of centuries. The stately beech, beautiful 
even in winter, when with grayish-silver stem it towers upwards from 
its favourite sloping banks,—richly carpeted in the russet hue of its 
fallen leaves,—and expands into a graceful head of reddish branches, 
affords the species nightly shelter. The same tree, too, may have 
cradled the infant ring-dove ; and when the bird became mature, fed 
it with its ‘mast.? The rock-dove, on the other hand, has its abode 
in the gloomy caverns both of land and sea. How various are the 
scenes—nay, countries and climates—brought vividly, with all their 
accompaniments, before the mind, by the sight of this handsome 
species! A brief indication of the nature of a very few may here be 
given ; and in the first place, of two similar in kind, but ‘yet how 
different!’ ‘The most northern great water-fall at which this bird 
has come under my notice is that of Foyers, in Inverness-shire, where 
its habitation, 
‘Dim-seen through rising mists and ceaseless showers, 
The hoary cavern, wide-surrounding, lowers.’ 
“‘ Over this fall ‘the evergreen pine’ presides in majesty, and the 
surrounding scenery partakes of the fine bold character of the ‘ land 
of the mountain and the flood.’ From the banks above, we may, 
however, in a serene day, gaze across the lengthened expanse of Loch 
Ness as it sleeps in azure, and over the steep mountain-sides that rise 
from its margin richly wooded with the graceful weeping birch (the 
predominant species), the hazel, and other indigenous trees, until the 
eye rests on the somewhat distant and lofty pyramidal summit of 
Maelfourvonie. The most southern locality of a similar kind, in 
which rock-doves attracted my attention, was amid the enchanting 
scenery of the Sabine hills, about the celebrated cascade of the Anio 
at Tivoli, where, numerous as domestic pigeons in a well-stocked 
dove-cot, they appeared flying in and out of the gloomy recesses of the 
rocks close to where the mass of waters was precipitated. The cliffs 
above these falls are crowned by the ruins of the Corinthian temple 
of Vesta; from the neighbouring hill-sides the great aloe and the 
myrtle sprmg spontaneously, while the most antique of olive-trees, 
many of them even grotesque from the decrepitude of age, form the 
chief features of the foliage. Afar, over the dreary Campagna, Rome, 
once mistress of the world, appears. 
“In the snow-white caves adjacent to Dunluce Castle, near the 
Giant’s Causeway, and those darkly pierced in the long range of stu- 
pendous cliffs at the Horn in Donegal, which boldly confront the At- 
