82 BRITISH BIRDS' NESTS. 



at the tips; chin dark bluish-grey; throat and 

 upper part of breast glossed with green, lavender, 

 purple, and purplish-red ; lower breast and all 

 under-parts grey. Legs and toes purplish-red ; 

 claws brown. 



The female is somewhat smaller, and not so 

 brilliant and distinctive in her coloration. 



Situation and Locality. Ledges and clefts of 

 maritime and inland cliffs, generally the former, 

 round the coasts of England, Wales, Scotland, and 

 Ireland, wherever suitable accommodation is to be 

 met with. Our illustrations are from photographs 

 taken in a Hebridean cave where traces may be 

 constantly seen of tame pigeons reverting to their 

 original type. 



Materials. A small collection of twigs, sticks, 

 seaweed, and bents, roughly constructed, and flat. 

 I have found many nests formed entirely of dead 

 seaweed, and a friend of mine recently had one 

 sent to him from the Outer Hebrides constructed 

 entirely from bits of wire. 



Eggs. Two, white, unspotted and smooth. Size 

 about 1.45 by 1.15 in. 



Time. March, April, May, and June, although 

 eggs have been found in nearly every other month 

 of the year. 



Remarks. Resident. Notes : coo-roo-coo, last 

 syllable prolonged. Local and other names : 

 Rockier, Wild Pigeon, Rock Pigeon, Wild Dove,, 

 Doo. A fairly close sitter, and distinguished from 

 the Stock Dove by its white rump, which is con- 

 spicuously shown as the bird flies out of some sea 

 cave beneath the ornithological student's feet. 



