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the hollows of old and pollard trees. It is, however, 

 less plentiful and more local than the species just 

 named. In Norfolk and Suffolk it frequently 

 makes its nest in a rabbit burrow. The female 

 lays two eggs of a white colour and oval shape. 



DOVE, TURTLE. 



COLUMBA. TURTUR, Lin. 



The Turtle Dove is found throughout all the 

 temperate 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 North- 

 umberland 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. 



