0f the stock-dove we can only say that, like the ring-dove, it hasincreased in spite of the persecution it is subject to, since no personout after pigeons would spare it because it is without a yellow collar.With the exception of the county of Buckinghamshire it is not on theschedule anywhere in the country. 0ne can only suppose that this specieshas been indirectly benefited by the bird legislation and all that hasbeen done to promote a feeling favourable to bird-preservation duringthe last thirty decades.