in Great Britain during the Nesting-season. 141 



Shropshire, and perhaps in North Wales [Eyton). The nest 

 has been found both in East and West Yorkshire, but hardly, I 

 believe, beyond the 5 4th degree of latitude. The bird seems 

 to be most numerous in some of the midland and eastern coun- 

 ties 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 re- 

 gularly in Cheshire and South Lancashire, where the nest is 

 placed in fir-trees and ivy. The Rev. 0. Pickard-Cambridge 

 describes the bird as building 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 Pui'beck {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 breed- 

 ing occasionally in Cornwall. The Rev. M. A. Mathews has ob- 

 served it building in the clifi"s 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 probably 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 



