for Mr. Schalow states (J. f. O. 1876, p. 113) that it breeds regularly in the Thiergarten of 

 Berlin, close to the Charlottenburger Chaussee, undisturbed by the constant traffic which passes 

 there. According to Mr. Collin, it is the commonest of all the Pigeons which breed in Denmark, 

 and is generally distributed in suitable localities. It usually arrives in March ; and during mild 

 seasons large numbers remain over winter. In Heligoland, Mr. Cordeaux writes (Ibis, 1875, 

 p. 184), it " is common during both periods of migration, in flights more numerous in the autumn 

 than in the spring, from five to ten or twenty in a flock. Time of migration from the end of 

 March to the end of May, and from the latter part of September to the end of October." In 

 Holland it is very common, being chiefly found during summer, arriving in April and leaving in 

 September or October; but it not unfrequently remains there over winter. In Belgium it is 

 common and resident; and in France it is found everywhere, in large flocks, on the double 

 passage, but is nowhere so common, as a resident, as in the public gardens of Paris, where it is 

 found eight months in the year in a state of semidomestication. M. Adrien Lacroix says that 

 it occurs on passage in the French Pyrenees, nesting accidentally only in the Hautes Pyrenees 

 and Pyrenees orientales ; and in Portugal, according to Professor Barboza du Bocage, it is 

 common. In Spain it is common in the winter ; and some few breed there. Colonel Irby says 

 that a few pairs breed in the cork-wood near Gibraltar and in other wooded districts in Southern 

 Spain, but it is most abundant during the winter months. Von Homeyer observed it in the 

 Balearic Isles, and says (J. f. O. 1862, p. 417) that a few pairs occur in the wooded districts of 

 Majorca. In Savoy it is abundant on passage, more particularly in the autumn, and occurs also 

 in summer, but very few remain over the winter ; and in Italy it is chiefly to be met with on 

 passage, though some few nest there, as also in Sicily and Sardinia. Mr. C. Bygrave Wharton 

 found it not uncommon in Corsica during the winter, but noticed none in the spring; and 

 Mr. C. A. Wright says (Ibis, 1864, p. 137) concerning it in Malta: — "Passes in April and May, 

 and again in September, October, and November. Never seen in great numbers. Does not breed 

 here, doubtless owing to the want of woodlands." In Southern Germany the Ring-Dove is a 

 tolerably common and generally-distributed summer resident. Mr. Seidensacher informed me 

 that it breeds throughout Styria in suitable localities ; and Dr. Fritsch says that it is commoner 

 in Bohemia than the Stock-Dove, arriving late in March, collecting in flocks in the autumn, and 

 leaving the country in October. In the Carpathians, Count Casimir Wodzicki says, it is common 

 as far up as the forest extends, and breeds twice in the season, some few pairs even rearing three 

 broods in the year. Messrs. Danford and Harvie-Brown state (Ibis, 1875, p. 416) that it is 

 common in Transylvania at some seasons, but they did not observe it when there in the summer ; 

 and in Turkey, according to Messrs. Elwes and Buckley (Ibis, 1870, p. 200), it is tolerably 

 numerous in most parts of the country, but is never seen in large flocks. The bird found there 

 is, they add, rather larger and darker than our British bird. 



Dr. Kruper says that it winters in large numbers in Greece and Asia Minor, but only a 

 few pairs remain to breed in the most lonely forests in the mountains, and nests have been taken 

 on Mount Parnassus and the Veluchi. Very large flocks are seen at the foot of the Olympus in 

 winter. Lord Lilford, who met with it in the Ionian Islands, writes (Ibis, 1860, p. 236) as 

 follows : — " I noticed very large flocks of Wood-Pigeons near Phanari, in the plains through 

 which the Acheron runs. This was in March 1857. I have occasionally seen a few in different 



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