]12 WOOD PIGEON. 



the food previously swallowed, reduced to a sort of milk. The male 

 and female both take their turns in hatching the eggs and in feeding 

 the young, the former sitting from six to eight hours from nine or 

 ten in the morning to about three or four in the afternoon. 



The first brood are abroad by the beginning of May; the second 

 in the end of July. Mr'. Macgillivray has known the young unfledged 

 in October, and a pair with down tips to the feathers on the 26th. 

 of that month; Mr. Hewitson, too, so late as the middle of September; 

 and K,. A. Julian, Esq., Jun., on the 15th. of that month, 1851, at 

 Minchenay, near Holbeton, Devon; so also E. C. Nunn, Esq., at 

 Trevan Wood, near Diss, Norfolk, on the 25th. of the same month in 

 the same year. 



