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nature of these sites the Pigeons inhabiting them are no 
doubt Stock Doves. 
The occurrence of the Stock Dove in Man is quite in 
keeping with the northern and western extension of its 
breeding range in late years, as noted below. 
Since writing the above, Mr. T. H. Nelson has recorded 
(Zool., 1903, p. 391) that in May 1896 Mr. W, E. 
Teschemaker and he ‘found a nest of this bird, containing 
two young ones, in a hole near the cliff-top between Seafield 
(St. Anne’s) and Derby-haven. The young Doves were kept 
in a wicker cage, but did not take kindly to captivity, 
judging from the quaint remark made in the following year 
- by the Manx servant who attended to them: “It is not 
tamer they are getting, but wilder,’ and soon afterwards 
they were set at liberty. In August of the present year I 
saw a pair of Stock Doves near St. Anne’s Head.’ 
In 1905 the writer also saw Stock Doves near Port 
Grenaugh. 
Thus the coasts of Patrick, Maughold, and Santon, all 
once strongholds of the Rock Dove, have all been colonised 
by this species. 
Early in December 1904 Mr. W. Kissack gave me two 
Stock Doves, which had been shot from a considerable flock 
on Langness. Mr. Turner again obtained others later in the 
same month, and there can be no doubt that the species is 
of regular occurrence every winter in the Castletown neigh- 
bourhood, where the birds are called ‘ Blue Rocks.’ 
In Ireland the Stock Dove was first recorded in 1875, 
since which it has been found nesting in Antrim, Down, 
Armagh, Louth, Wicklow, and other counties. In 1876 it 
was first found breeding in Southwick, Kirkcudbrightshire, 
by Mr. Service, and has since spread over ‘Solway. In 
Cumberland and Lancashire, where it breeds both among 
the fells and the sand-hills, its range is likewise extending ; 
