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WOOD-PIGEONS 



CHAPTER XV 



Increase of Wood-Pigeons and other Birds— Service to the farmer of these Birds — 

 Tame Wood-Pigeons : Food of — The Turtle-Dove — Blue Roclc-Pigeons : Cav^s 

 where they breed — Shooting at the Rocks near Cromarty. 



Owing to the decrease of vermin, that is, of all the carnivorous 

 birds and beasts of the country, there is a proportionate increase 

 in the numbers of the different living creatures on which they 

 preyed. I do not here allude to game only, but to all the other 

 /ercs naturce of the district. Wood-pigeons, blackbirds, thrushes, 

 and all the smaller birds increase yearly in consequence of the 



