296 RINGDOVE. Class II. 



-to bill in their courtfhip -, for the male and female 

 to fit by turns, and alfo to feed their young; to 

 caft their provifion out of their craw into the young 

 ones' mouths ; to drink, not like other birds by fip- 

 ping, but by continual draughts like quadrupeds; 

 and to have notes mournful, or plaintive. 



302. Ring, 



Le Ramier. Belon aoj. 30-7. 

 PhafTa. Belonohf. 13. 

 Palumbus. Gefner a^o, 310. 

 Palumbus major five torquatus. 



Jldr. a^v. II. 227. 

 Colombaccio. Olina, 54. 

 Ring-dove, Queeft, or Cufhat. 



Wil. orn. 185. 

 Le Pigeon Ramier. Brijfo^i a-v. 



I, 89. Hijl. d'Oys. II. 531. 



Griunik. ScopoUy No. 178.^ 



Rail fyn. a'v. 62. 



Columba palumbus. Lin.fyji, 



fp. 282. 

 RingduAva, Siutut. Faun. 



Suec.Jp. 208. 

 Wildtaube, Ringltaube. 



Kram. 359. 

 Ringcl-Taube. Frifch, I. 



138.^ 

 Dan. Ringel-due Bcrnholmisy 



Skude. Brunnich, 204. 

 Br. Zool. 89. plate O. 



Descrip, 



THIS fpecics forms its neft of a few dry flicks 

 in the boughs of trees : attempts have 

 been made to domeflicate thejn, by hatching their 

 eggs under the common pigeon in dove houfes ; 

 but as foon as they could fly, they always took 

 to their proper haunts. In the beginning of the 

 winter they aflemble in great flocks and leave 

 off cooing; which they begin in March, when 

 they pair. The ring dove is the largeft pigeon we 

 have; and may be at once didinguiflied from all 

 others by the flze. Its weight is about twenty 



ounces; 



