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the use to which the nails were applied. The nails, 

 when removed, filled a watering-can holding about two 

 gallons, one of the nests containing more than fourteen 

 pounds weight." 



The Stock Dove (G. cenas) is not uncommon, mingling, 

 in the winter more especially, with the small flocks of 

 ring doves. I never found the nest on the ground, 

 where it is stated to be frequently placed ; but I knew 

 a very large and almost globular mass of ivy in the fork 

 of an ash tree, in Ely the- corner Wood, in the close 

 recesses of which a pair of stock doves reared their 

 young for several years together. I do not think this 

 species is so numerous with us as the preceding one, but 

 it is still plentiful. 



The latter word cannot, however, be applied to the 

 Turtle Dove (G. turtur), one or two specimens being all 

 that I have noted, though some have been killed in 

 other parts of the county. I have never known it nest 

 with us, and it can only be considered a rare straggler. 



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