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The Turtle Dove has the beak brown; the irides 
reddish brown; under the eye is a small patch of 
naked red skin; the head and nape are bluish grey ; 
on the side of the neck are some black feathers, 
tipped and partially margined with white; the back, 
scapulars, rump and tail-coverts are bluish grey, a 
good deal tinged with rusty—nearly all the feathers 
of these parts are darker in the centre; the wing- 
coverts are black in the centre, broadly mar- 
gined with orange-rusty; some of the outside 
wing-coverts are bluish grey; the quills are dusky, 
the tertials margined with rusty brown; the two 
centre feathers of the tail are dusky, the rest 
dark lead-blue, each feather broadly tipped with 
white, and the outer web of the outside feather on 
each side is white—the shafts of all are black; the 
cheeks and throat are dirty yellowish white ;° the 
breast is bluish grey, very strongly tinged with pur- 
plish pink; the rest of the under parts are nearly 
white. Yarrell describes “‘the young bird of the 
year up to the time of its leaving this country,” as 
having “the beak dark brown; the general colour of 
the plumage of the head and body hair-brown; the 
back rather darker than the front of the neck; the 
wing-coverts tipped with buffy white; the flight- or 
quill-feathers slightly tinged on their outer edges 
with rufous; belly and under tail-coverts white ; 
flanks bluish grey; tail-feathers above hair-brown, 
on the under surface blackish brown; the white part 
