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the hollows of old and pollard trees. Itis, however, 
less plentiful and more local than the species 
just named. In Norfolk and Suffolk it frequently 
makes its nest inarabbit burrow. The female 
lays two eggs of a white colour and oval shape. 
DOVE, TURTLE. 
CoLuMBA TURTUR, Lin. 
This species is found throughout all the tem- 
perate parts of Europe, but its utmost flight never 
carries it within the Arctic circle. It is known in 
England, in which, however, it is only a summer 
visitant, arriving from Africa about the latter end 
of April, or the beginning of May. It makes its 
appearance principally in the southern, eastern, and 
midland counties. In Kent, where it breeds in the 
thickest woods, it is very numerous, but is rarely 
found as far westward as Devonshire. It is never 
met with in the northern counties during summer, 
but has occasionally been killed in Northumber- 
land during autumn. It builds in the closest 
woods, where it constructs a shallow nest of small 
twigs. It lays two eggs of an oval shape, white, 
as are those of all this genus,‘and about half the 
size of those of the common Pigeon. 
