176 RING DOVE 
MERGUS ALBELLUS, Linn. SMEW. 
In the Wallace collection were two female Smews from 
the Isle of Man. One of these, purchased by the Rev. H. A. 
Macpherson, was presented by him to the Isle of Man 
Natural History Society, and is in the Museum at Ramsey, 
There is no other Manx record. 
A very casual visitor to Ireland, the Smew has been 
obtained both in Antrim and Down. It has two or three 
times occurred in Galloway. The records from Lancashire, 
and especially from Cumberland, are rather more frequent. 
A very few specimens have been obtained among the 
outer Scottish isles. It breeds in the far north, and appears 
more commonly on the eastern than the western coasts of 
Britain. 
COLUMBA PALUMBUS, Linn. RING DOVE. 
Manx, *Calmane-Keeylley (M. S. D.)=Wood Pigeon. (Cf. Sc. 
Gaelic, Calman cotlle; Irish, Colm, Colum=Dove; Latin, 
Columba.) 
Although, as noted by Mr. Kermode, large flocks some- 
times appear in winter, the Wood Pigeon can hardly be 
described as comparatively abundant in Man. It is fairly 
well distributed over the cultivated land, and occasionally 
one or two resort to the seashore. 
Mr. Graves has repeatedly noted the liking of the Wood 
Pigeon for the young buds of trees, and has watched them 
at work on the slender branches of the beech just bursting 
into leaf, their weight breaking off long sprays of the twigs 
