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it is in the north of England, notably in the 

 " Dukeries." Here it is a sea-coast bird prin- 

 cipally, and practically takes the place of the 

 Rock Dove on our maritime cliffs. Lastly, we 

 may allude to the Turtle Dove. This is decidedly 

 the rarest and most local of the three woodland 

 Pigeons, and is known to breed in but few 

 places only. It is a summer migrant, arriving in 

 Devonshire at the end of April or the beginning 

 of May, and leaving us again in September. One 

 or two pairs breed regularly in our immediate 

 neighbourhood ; whilst during the migration period 

 we occasionally see or hear others that are merely 

 passing over the district. Its well-known and 

 easily recognised call-note may be most frequently 

 heard from well-timbered pleasure-grounds and 

 woods in which there is a dense undergrowth. 

 It may be of interest to remark that we caught 

 an example of the Collared Turtle Dove (Turtur 

 risorius) last spring (1898). We kept it for a 

 month, until it had nearly completed its moult, and 

 then it managed to escape. Whether this individual 

 was an escaped bird, or one that had possibly been 

 bred in some of the woods near Plymouth (vide 

 Zoologist, 1877, p. 493), we are unable to say. 



