rabbit-burrow under high ash-trees, and in the second 
between two of the main roots of an elm, without con- 
cealment of any kind. The name of “ Stock” was, as 
mentioned in ‘Yarrell,’ no doubt originally applied to the 
bird on account of its predilection for the hollows, 
stocks, or stumps of trees for nesting-purposes. A 
male Stock-Dove in the aviary at Lilford declined to 
make any amorous advances to various female congeners 
from the Canaries, but paired at once with an Antwerp 
Carrier Pigeon: the result was two eggs, from which 
one bird, exactly resembling its male parent (except in 
the possession of a somewhat stouter beak), was 
hatched, but only lived for about three weeks; the 
remains of this youngster are now at S. Kensington. 
