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FAMILIAR WILT) BIRDS. 



The female is of a rather lighter appearance than 

 her mate, and as a rule not quite, so large, but the sex is 

 /lifSeult to distinguish. The young birds are at lirst 

 covered with a soft yellowish down, and the full plumage 

 is only gradually obtained, not com})letely until their 

 second year. 



The note of the Turtle Dove closely resembles the 

 syllables " Tur-tur " repeated more or less rapidly — a cir- 

 cumstance to which its name may be no doubt attributed^ A 



