STOCK DOVE, RING DOVE. ^ 329 



A. The Stock Dove, ?/7/. Ora. . . 

 Columba Oenas, Skogfdufva, Faun, Suec. N° 107. 



TS very frequent in a wild ftate in the fouth of Rujfia, breeding in 

 the turrets of village-churches, and in fteep rocky banks of ri- 

 vers J but at approach of winter, migrates fouthward. It does the 

 fame in Sweden *. Is among the birds of the Feroe ifles, and fome- 

 times ftrays as far Finmark f. 



No Pigeons are feen in Sibiria, till you come beyond lake Baikal, 

 where a very fmall variety (with a white rump) breeds in great 

 plenty about the rocks. This is the fame with our Rock Pigeon, 

 one flock or origin of our tame Pigeons. This fpecies breeds in 

 the cliffs as far north as the diocefe of Bergen in Norway %•. Haunt 

 during winter the cliffs of the Orknies, by myriads. 



B. Ring Dovb, Br. Zool. 1. N° 102. 



Columba Palumbus^ Ringdufwa, Faun. Suec. N* 208^ 

 Le Ramier, De Bujfon, ii. 531. 



/^ O M M O N in the Ruftan forefls : very fcarce in Sihiria ; none in 

 the north-eaft. Vifits Sweden in fummer : migrates in autumn. 

 None in Norway. 



None of the Pigeon tribe inhabit the ar£fk zone, by reafon not 

 only of the cold, but of defeft of food. 



• Ekmark Migr. av. in Amcen. Acad. iv. 593. f Ltems^ 245, 



J Pontop, ii. 69. Since the publication of the laft edition of the Britijh Zoology, 



I have been informed, by the Rev. Mr. AJhhyy of Barronxi, near Neiumarket, that 

 multitudes of Stock Do-ves breed in the rabbet-burrows on the fandy plains oi Suffolk^ 

 about Brandon ; and that the ihepherds annuall/^ take the young for fale. 



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