K O Civ -DOVE. 
COLVMBJ LirU. 
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the face of a steep cliff, plainly iinlica t . eave°s-small occasionally, Imt for the most 
represented. According to my own cxpeiienc , ^ occasion I have 
part deep, dark, and gloomy-tl.at the Eoc - je i . ,, “,a;„g.season freqaenting some of tho 
,.een assured that these birds were j ^^^ertained in cvciy instance that the 
Sussex chalk-pits on the downs; on iisi in,, , nest caves at the Bass 
presence of a few pairs of ,,,, „„iy pigeons I ever ohseived about tho rock 
wore also said to be tenanted ,pe„mllon, and had taken up their quarters in 
were birds that had cscapci lom ° ,i,e old castle. These birds harboured about the coast- 
l'“"'"t“rle“irTxtld«l towards Seaeliff, and oceasioiiany took a tl^ht out to the Bass; I was, 
irvcver, unable to learn that they had ever made beyond ,Ue Jloray Birth, their 
Kumbers of these birds breed in “ „t these fantastically formed 
nests being placed on the ledges an . Assures in the rook to which not even a ray 
caverns. ^ there were a tew biiif-tinted 
of liglit appeared to penetrate. colourin- tliouo-lr rvliether escaped from some 
birds frequenting the ^ I Ead no rrreans of ascertaining, as they kept 
of the farm-buildings near at hand ox nrei y ox-mrination There rvas no difficulty in 
at a respectful distance, and I was unable to procure on . which I allowed them to 
securing a hue pair of the Blue during May and dune, the 
fly in and out ^^di 1^10 Lh y^ Doves, we ascertained, were not the only 
!cl;aro,"l“cav?s, arJthose n:arcst the entranc: to the Cromarty Firth we came across frequent tracks 
young Bock-Doves that are bI^ ru";: ^^t Zl 
of lloss-shire, almost opposite t lo is an required ; but how to get at them was 
Aelow, we ascertained J ^ pr„red successful; a couple of tall sturdy Iliglilanders 
at first a puzzle. At P mounted on their shoulders, after which, 
, • om .md hoou ..rougut ashore. I managed to elliiih above 
1 mentnd assisted by the ineqiiaiitios in the slabs of broken rock, to reacli the young birds and nest. 
