178 STOCK DOVE 
COLUMBA GNAS, Linn. STOCK DOVE. 
The earliest definite record of this species was in 
November 1900, when Mr. E. Turner, of Castletown, shot 
three out of a flock of about sixty near that town. One of 
these specimens is now in the Ramsey Museum. Mr. Turner 
tells me, however, that he shot four exactly the same at 
Ronaldsway in the end of October 1899. As early as 1885 
Mr. Graves had been told that ‘Rock Doves’ bred in the 
Greeba rocks, some five miles inland. In 1895 grey 
Pigeons were repeatedly seen by the writer on the Lonan 
coast, between Laxey and Garwick, and in later years a few 
on the Santon cliffs, but he was in doubt as to the species. 
On 3lst March 1898 two, seemingly entirely grey, were 
seen among the nesting Gulls on the brows of German. In 
the summer of 1902, however, Mr. Graves found on various 
occasions undoubted Stock Doves in several localities on 
the coast between Peel and Glenmay, which unquestionably 
were breeding among the broken crags and boulders, though 
he failed actually to find a nest. During the same summer 
he also saw one on Greeba, and Pigeons reported from the 
shores between Fleshwick and Dalby were probably of this 
species (see Zool., 1903, p. 316). So too those which, as 
I am told by Mr. H. Cannell, haunt and doubtless nest 
in the lofty pile of precipice and steep broken hillside at 
Hyastal (Ord. Map, ‘ Fheustal’) in Dalby. 
Mr. Allison and other residents in Maughold report that 
besides the Pigeons in the caves of Maughold Head, to be 
referred to under the next heading, others breed in several 
places in that parish on the coast, as amid the stony brows 
at Ballaskeig, and in the ivy-clad crags near the outlet to 
the sea of the deep and precipitous Dhoon Glen. From the 
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