TURTLE DOVE. 



COLUMBJR. 



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COLVMBID^. 



TuRTUR COMMUNIS, Selby.* 



THE TURTLE DOVE. 



Columha turtur. 



TuRTUR, Selby\; — Bill rather slender, the tip of the upper mandible gently 

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

 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. cit. p. 169. 



