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THE TURTLE-DOVE. 



TuRTUR COMMUNIS, Sclby. 



The Turtle-Dove is only a summer-visitor to the British Islands, 

 arriving in the southern districts about the end of April or early in 

 May, according to the nature of the season. In Cornwall, Western 

 Wales, and Lancashire it is unfrequent, but otherwise it is of more 

 or less regular occurrence up to about the line of Sheffield, north 

 of which it is rare ; though known to have bred in Durham and 

 Cumberland, while Mr. Fortune asserts that he has found the 

 nest near Alnwick in Northumberland. It probably breeds in the 

 south-west of Scotland, while its migrations have extended as far 

 north as the Shetlands (also to the Freroes). In Ireland it is 



