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NATURAL msronr of birds. 



doves, P. cinerea lieinj; grayisli Miic on tlie lii-ad, nock, an<l back, and ashy white 

 bolow. Thi' tail is sliirhtly roiindid, with thu latir.il fiatlii-rs black. It is found ia 

 Cayenne, Brazil, and IVni, also in C'lntial Ainurica. 



Turtur, to which wc now come, is a rather extensive genus, containing something 

 like twenty-five or thirty species. They are scattered pretty generally over the Old 

 World, but the genus is not rcjircsented in the western heniis]ihere. The familiar 



Fio. 119.— Turtur vtUgam, turlle-dovc. 



turtle-ilove, 7'. ru/t/,in'», is a representative species of this genus. Inhabiting Europe 

 generally, it extends eastward into western Asia and southward into Africa. Timid 

 and retiring in disposition, it is universally aceeiitcd as the emblem of peace, and lives 

 in amity with all others of its race. While accustomed to frecpient trees, it is also 

 at home upon the ground, where it walks with ease. It flies with great swiftness, and 

 turns and twists in its course with marvellous celerity, and pilots its way amid the 

 forest, even when at full speeil, willi extraordinary skdl. Wiien mated, the i)air evince 



