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THE BIRDS OF HAMPSHIRE. 
" displaying a strange ferocity of nature, so as scarcely to 
bear to be looked at." 
Bury also ' found them uninteresting pets, with listless- 
ness their striking characteristic. 
Contrary, however, to these experiences, Munn has 
successfully reared several young ones, and has found that 
they displayed unusual attachment to their owner, even to 
following him about the premises, though to other persons 
they displayed their " strange ferocity of nature," to the 
extent of snapping their beaks and flapping their wings 
against the hand stretched towards them. 
In the nesting season they are found most plentifully 
in the coppices of larch and spruce-fir in the Central Hill 
district, and in the enclosures of fir-trees in the New 
Forest. 
On October 26th, 1892, Munn found a nest with two 
half-grown young in a chesnut tree, then bare of foliage ; 
and on March 22nd, 1905, a pair of fully-fledged young, 
nearly ready to fly, were found in a nest at Laverstoke. 
Thousands of these birds were noticed at St. Catherine's 
Lighthouse on the morning of November 15th, 1901. passing 
from east to west in calm, clear weather. 
192. Cohimba cenas, Stock-Dove. 
A resident, universally distributed. 
Nowhere very plentiful, nor occurring in such numbers 
as the ring-dove, but in winter associating with that bird, 
in small parties, from which they separate, however, in 
February, when they pair, and frequently have eggs by the 
middle of March. 
» "Zoologist." 1845. 
