COLUMB.E. 



TURTLE DOVE. 



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COLVMBID.F,. 



TuRTUR COMMUNIS, Selby.* 

 THE TURTLE DOVE. 



Columha turtiir. 



TuRTUR, Selbyf. — Bill nithcr slender, the tip of the upper mandible gently 

 deflected, that of the lower scarcely exhibiting the appearance of an angle : base 

 of the upper mandible covered with two soft, tumid, bare substances covering the 



* Naturalist's Library, Ornithology, vol. v. pp. 153 and 171 (1835). 

 t Tom. ell. p. 169. 



