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Professor Ansted includes the Kock Dove in his 

 list, and marks it as occurring in Guernsey and Sark. 

 There is no specimen in the Museum. Professor 

 Ansted also includes the Stock Dove, Columba <enas, 

 Linnaeus, in his list as occurring in Guernsey and 

 Sark ; but I think he must have done so on 

 insufficient evidence, as I have never seen it and 

 not heen able to gain any information about it ; 

 neither does Mr. Gallienne say anything about it in 

 his notes appended to the list ; so on the whole I 

 think it better to omit it in my list ; but as it may 

 occur at any time, especially as it is certainly 

 increasing considerably in numbers in the West of 

 England, I may mention that it may be immediately 

 distinguished from the Eock Dove by the absence 

 of the white rump, that part being nearly the same 

 colour as the back in the Stock Dove, and from the 

 Wood Pigeon, Columba palumbus, by its smaller size 

 and the entire absence of white on the wing. It is 

 perhaps more necessary to point out this difference, 

 as the Stock Dove frequently goes by the name of 

 the Wood Pigeon ; indeed Dresser has adopted this 

 name for it, the Wood Pigeon being called the Eing 

 Dove, as is very frequently the case. 



93. TURTLE DOVE. Turtur vulgaris, Eyton. 

 French, " Colombe tourterelle." The Turtle Dove 

 is a regular, but probably never very numerous 

 summer visitant, arriving and departing about the 



