ROCK DOVE 



ROCKIER. 



PLATE CXXXV. FIGURE L 



. Scur. JEXTBS. Gocux 



THE Rock Dove builds in companies in rock)* cliffs on 

 the coast, many often in the same cavern. The nest 

 is composed of sticks and dry stalks, with blades of grass 

 and other plants, laid together without much care. The 

 bed is fresh made without much trouble for a new brood as 

 soon as the former has been sent at large. The first eggs 

 are laid about or towards the middle of AprQ, and the latest 

 the latter end of August ; the young are seen about the 

 end of September. 



The eggs are white, and two in number ; while the hen 

 is sitting, the cock bird remains at night close to the nest. 

 The young birds are fledged in about three weeks, and are 

 fed from the crops of their parents for some days after they 

 are able to fly. 



