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Yorkshire, but hardly, I believe, beyond the 54th degree of latitude. 

 The bird seems to be most numerous in some of the midland and eastern 

 counties of England, and has not been observed in either Scotland or 

 Ireland. Mr. J. F. Brockholes, who has taken especial pains to 

 identify the species, tells me that the Stock- Dove breeds regularly in 

 Cheshire and South Lancashire, where the nest is placed in fir-trees 

 and ivy. The Rev. O. Pickard-Cambridge describes the bird as build- 

 ing in exactly the same kind of locality, among matted ivy, close to the 

 trunks of cedars and fir-trees, more often in the holes of old trees where 

 limbs have been broken off. 



COLUMBA LIVIA (Briss.}. Rock-Dove. 



Provinces I. [II.] V.-VIII. X. XII.-XVII. 



Subprovinces i, 2, 3, (4), 13, 17, 18, 20, 21 ?, 22, 23, 25, 26-38. 



Lat. 50-61. Atlantic " (or perhaps " Scottish ") type. 



Far more numerous in the north ; and on the west than on the east 

 coast of Scotland. 



Commencing from the south of England, the Rock-Dove used to 

 breed formerly at Purbeck (Rev. H. Austin}-; but there is no direct 

 evidence of its having ever bred in the Isle of Wight. 



Mr. E. H. Rodd includes the Rock-Dove in his list as breeding 

 occasionally in Cornwall. Rev. M. A. Mathews has observed it 

 building in the cliffs about Lynton. Mr. W. D. Crotch reports it as 

 breeding in Somersetshire. The bird is said to be common in Gloucester 

 and Monmouth. 



Sir W. Jardine gives Caldey Island as a locality, and Mr. Tracy 

 marks the bird as breeding in Pembrokeshire. The Rev. H. Harpur 

 Crewe has observed it breeding in Denbighshire, and there are pro- 

 bably several other localities in South and North Wales. 



Mr. J. F. Brockholes tells me that there is a colony at Beeston 

 Castle, Cheshire, and that he once noticed a pair frequenting the high 

 banks of the Mersey during the breeding season. Mr. C. S. Gregson 

 informs me that the Rock-Dove breeds at Whitbarrow Scar ; and Mr. 

 J. B. Hodgkinson has found its nest occasionally in Cumberland: it 

 breeds also in the Isle of Man, as I learn from my obliging correspondent 

 Mr. J. F. Crellin. 



The Rock- Dove is numerous in many localities along the west coast 

 of Scotland, especially in the isles, and abounds in the Outer Hebrides, 

 in Orkney, and in Shetland, and, though less numerous on the east side 

 of Scotland, breeds regularly in Caithness, Elgin, Banff, and in a few 

 localities in Aberdeenshire, at Down Castle, Stirling (Mr. J. Murray], 

 in the Isle of May, on the Bass Rock, and at Fast Castle, Berwickshire. 



On the east coast of England, the Rock-Dove breeds only at 

 Flamborough ; it also breeds in a few rocky valleys or inland cliffs in 

 Derby, York, Leicester, Stafford, Shropshire, and Somerset. 



Like the Dartford- Warbler, the Rock -Dove on the European con- 

 tinent is quite a southern species. 



