''Rmsians believe that pigeons are the sons of erring 

 Christians.^ ^ — E. J. Dillon. 



'^Why then, Sir, I will take a little liberty to tell, 

 or rather to remember you, what is said of Turtle Doves; 

 first, that they silently plight their troth and marry ; and 

 that then the survivor scorns, as the Thracian women are 

 said to do, to outlive his or her mate, and this is taken for 

 a tnUh, and if the survivor should ever couple with another, 

 then not only the living but the dead, be it either the he or 

 the she, is denied the name and honor of a true Turtle Dove.^' 



— Isaak Walton 



