Mr J. A. Ilarvie-Broivn on the SlocMove. 251 



to this, Dr Hey sham, writing in Hutcheson's " History of 

 Cumberland," 1795, was doubtful of its occurrence in the 

 county (vide " Life of John Heysham, M.D.," by Henry Lons- 

 dale, M.D., 1870 ; 53 pages of the fauna). Dr Heysham wrote 

 in 1795. Mr Duckworth has had considerable acquaintance 

 with the species of later years around Carlisle within a radius 

 of some eighteen miles of the city. He writes, " In the Eose 

 Holms, west of Carlisle, about six miles from this city, on the 

 28th of April 1861, in an old oak tree (one of the last vestiges 

 of Inglewood Forest), I found the hrst nest of the stockdove, 

 and in the following year I found another in an old rabbit- 

 hole in the bank of the river Koe, a tributary of the river 

 Calden. Since that time they have spread considerably, not 

 in great numbers, but in different parts of the district. I 

 have found them on the banks of the river Lyne, about seven 

 miles north-east of here, also on the Newbiggin Holms by the 

 side of the river Petterill, about five miles south of here, and 

 others by the river Eden, in holes in rocks, south-east from 

 here. I have found them near rivers in every instance." 



Scotland. 



In Scotland, we find an early record comes from a consider- 

 ably northern county, viz., Perthshire. Mr A. B. Brooks 

 writes me as follows : " I first observed the stockdove seven or 

 eight years ago — say 1875 or 1874 — when one flew close past 

 me one day in spring (I have not the exact date) ; but for 

 some time I could not find their nest, and it was not until 

 1878 that I succeeded in doing so. I sent a note of this to 

 the Ibis, 1879, p. 112. I took one of the young birds from 

 this nest, but it escaped out of the cage after I had kept it 

 about a fortnight. In 1879 I was delighted to see the old 

 pair back again, and they again bred in the same rocks, about 

 fifty yards from the site of the old nest, and brought out 

 their young ones, one of which I took when fully fledged and 

 sent to the Zoological Gardens in London, and it was alive 

 and weU a couple of months ago. I have been away from 

 home since that every summer, but have very little doubt of 

 their breeding in the same place if they have escaped being 

 massacred. Their nest, as mentioned in the Ibis, was built 



