1cG8 ROCK DOVE. 
In Yorkshire, the Rock Dove is plentiful among the high 
cliffs of Flamborough and Speeton. 
In Scotland, it frequents most of the rocky shores of 
Sutherlandshire, also those of Ross-shire, Morayshire, and 
Cromarty; in fact any such on both the east and west coasts. 
In Orkney, the Wild Pigeon abounds, being found almost 
everywhere where there are rocks or caves to afford them a 
secure building retreat. The same is the case in Shetland 
and the Hebrides, or Western Islands. 
These birds are commonly believed to pair for life; if the 
female be killed her partner exhibits the most expressive 
emotions of distress; and it is long, if ever, before he changes 
his widowed state: some are even said to have been known 
to have died with grief—‘I did mourn as a Dove,’ says 
Daniel, borrowing from nature the most expressive image 
that he could use. They are capable of being easily tamed 
if taken young, which indeed is evidenced by the domesticated 
race, and one has been known to have lived full twenty years. 
Mr. Edward, of Banff, has recorded in the ‘Banffshire 
Journal’ an instance of a Common Pigeon having lived to 
the seventeenth year of its age; and of one which he brought 
up, the late lamented Macgillivray thus feelingly writes, in 
recording its untimely fate:—‘Long and true was my sorrow 
for my lost companion, the remembrance of which will 
probably continue as long as life. I have since mourned 
the loss of a far dearer Dove. They were gentle and loving 
beings; but while the one has been blended with the elements. 
the other remains, ‘Hid with Curist in Gop, and for it I 
‘mourn not as those that have no hope.’’ 
Wild Pigeons live peaceably among their neighbours, and 
amicably among themselves, and if any slight differences, for 
the most part for the same dwelling-place, ever arise, 
‘Amantium ire amoris integratio est.’ In the winter they 
collect into flocks, as also in the autumn and the spring 
sometimes of several hundred or even thousand individuals, and 
then may be approached, with care, rather more nearly than 
at other times, for ordinarily they are shy. Macgillivray 
writes, ‘When searching for food, they walk about with great 
celerity, moving the head backwards and forwards at each 
step, the tail sloping towards the ground, and the tips of the 
wings tucked up over it. In windy weather they usually 
move in a direction more or less opposite to the blast, and 
keep their body nearer to the ground than when it is calm, 
