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 RASORES. 



COLUMBID.E. 



COLUMBIDM. 



THE STOCK DOVE. 



Columba (Eiias, Stock Dove, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 390. 

 ,, ,, ,, ,, Seluy, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 408. 



,, ,, ,, ,, Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 161. 



,, ,, ,, ,, Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. V. 



,, ,, Colomhe columbin, Temm. Man. d'Ornitli. vol. ii. p. 445. 



Montagu appears to have considered the Rock Dove and 

 the Stock Dove but as one species, applying the trivial name 

 anas to the Rock Dove, Avhich is truly described, and giving 

 no description of the Stock Dove. Bewick has figured the 

 Rock Dove under the specific name of anas, and remarks 

 that the Stock Dove, Rock Pigeon, and Wood Pigeon, with 

 some small differences, may be included under the same de- 

 nomination. Dr. Fleming has also called his Rock Dove 

 C. anas, considering them but one species, and I have, 

 therefore, omitted the usual references to these works among 

 the synonymcs altogether. 



