180 ROCK. DOVE 
and it nests on the Carnarvonshire coast, and in Anglesea. 
One specimen has been obtained in Shetland, and several 
are reported from Orkney, but none, so far, from the Outer 
Hebrides. The species is found in many parts of England, 
and is spreading in Scotland. 
COLUMBA LIVIA, Bonnaterre. ROCK DOVE ~ 
Manx, *Ca/mane ny creggey=Rock Dove. (Cf. Sc. Gaelic, 
Calman creaige.) 
The Manx coast, broken into innumerable caverns and 
chasms, offers at short intervals, in almost its whole circuit, 
such retreats as the Rock Dove loves, and in the earlier 
half of last century it was common in Man. 
Townley, describing his excursion from Port Erin to the 
Calf, says: ‘After we had doubled the first point in the 
main island, we saw great numbers of wild Pigeons, that 
lodge and breed in the holes of the tremendous rocks which 
surround and guard that westerly peninsula of Mona; but 
they were so very wild as not to allow us to come within 
gun-shot of them. They appeared entirely to resemble the 
blue dove-coat (sic) Pigeon, but smaller. During his visit — 
to Peel he had some of these wild Pigeons served up to him. © 
They were, he says, ‘darker than the dove-coat Pigeon, legs 
and feet red, beaks yellow, and were good eating. Vast 
quantities breed in the high rocky cliffs all the way from — 
Peel Island to the Calf. They are a very shy bird, not — 
easily approached by a gunner, but boys scramble up the — 
rocks and take the young ones out of the breeding 
holes.’ 
