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young green leaves, peas, grain, seeds, berries, turnip 

 leaves, beech -nuts, acorns, &c., according to the season of 

 the year. 



The young of the Stock Dove are frequently sent to 

 the London market, and sold to the poulterers, and on 

 January 4, 1840, I bought two old birds which had also 

 been sent up to market for sale ; these came packed with 

 some Ring Doves, and appeared to have been shot with 

 them. 



Columba cenas is, in truth, a southern species. Accord- 

 ing to Sir William Jardine, Mr. Macgillivray, and other 

 authorities, it is not found in Scotland, in the Hebrides, 

 in Orkney, or in Shetland, where the Rock Dove is com- 

 mon on most of the high cliffs and promontories at the sea- 

 side which have caves or fissure. "When the Stock Dove 

 does go northward, it is only as a summer visitor. M. 

 Nilsson includes it among the birds of Sweden, and has 

 given an excellent figure of it in the coloured illustrations 

 of his Scandinavian Fauna. In that country, where the 

 Rock Dove is also found, the Stock Dove builds in holes 

 of trees, and departs southward in autumn with the Ring 

 Dove. M. Vieillot says it is only a summer visitor to 

 Germany and France, and always found to inhabit woods 

 in the interior of each country. It is found in Provence 

 and the eastern part of Spain. It is abundant in Italy 

 during September, October, and November, then frequently 

 going further south. It is included among the birds of 

 Madeira. It is found in Corfu, Sicily, and Malta, going 

 from thence in autumn to Algeria. Mr. Selby and M. 

 Temminck consider it as widely diffused in North Africa, 

 but not going southward of the tropic ; and the Zoological 

 Society have received specimens from Erzeroum, which 

 agree exactly with our British examples ; Messrs. Dickson 

 and Ross, from whom they were received, remarking, in 



