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heard continually in spring. Like the Pigeons, it 

 feeds in the open, moving with an easy, stepping 

 gait as it seeks its food of grain or seeds in fallow, 

 stubble, or grass lands. It is of a less gregarious 

 habit than the Pigeons, but has all their freedom of 

 wing, roaming far and wide over the land in high 

 flight. 



RING-DOVE, STOCK-DOVE, ROCK-DOVE.— All of a 



generally gray tone, as distinguiahed from the generally 

 ruddy colour of the Turtle-Dove. 



