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STOCK DOVE. 
The Stock-Dove. — Colujiba cenas, Linnaeus, 
— C.cenas, Linn. — Columhe columbin, Temm . — 
Stock Dove of British authors This species, 
though apparently possessing a very wide geo- 
graphical distribution, is local in its British range, 
and, so far as we can ascertain, has not yet been 
met with in Scotland or Ireland; it is, in fact, 
confined to a few of the southern counties in 
England, and there, not even to those in which 
wood abounds ; and “ in the open counties of Suf- 
folk and Norfolk, this species frequently makes its 
nest in the holes in the ground, generally selecting 
a rabbit’s burrow for the purpose.” We have had 
little opportunity of seeing the species wild, or of 
attending to its habits; where we have seen it, it 
has been among aged wood, and at a distance the 
flight is not easily distinguished from that of the 
wood pigeon. According to our best informed Bri- 
tish ornithologists, it is most frequent in a compa- 
ratively well wooded district, breeding in decayed 
trees and in the pollards. They are also described 
in the open countries to “ nestle under thick furze 
bushes, which are impervious to rain.”* Its man- 
ners, in other respects, somewhat resemble the last, 
mixing occasionally with it and being gregarious 
in winter ; the food is also similar. Its note is 
described as more indistinct and regular than the 
last, and docs not bring with it the same associa- 
tions as that of either the wood pigeon or turtle 
* Yarrcll. 
