218 INDIAN PIGEONS AND DOVES 
They are favourite cage-birds and constantly utter their soft 
kroo kroo in captivity. Their voice has been well described as “low, 
subdued and musical, a dissyllabic sound, repeated four or five times 
successively.” 
They drink regularly in the mornings and possibly also at midday 
before their siesta, and again in the evenings, but there seems to be no 
evidence on this point. 
They are excellent eating, but are sometimes said to be rather 
more dry than the Spotted Dove, though similar to it in taste. 
