RING DOVE. 



XASOltfiS. 



287 

 COLUMBID^E. 



THE RING DOVE, OR WOOD PIGEON. 



THE QUEEST, AND THE CUSHAT. 



Columba palumbus. 



Columba palumhus, Ring Dove, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. \. p. 392. 



MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 



BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 317. 



PLEM. Brit. An. p. 47. 



SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 406. 



JENYNS, Brit. Yert. p. 161. 



Wood Pigeon, GOULD, Birds of Europe. 



Colonibe ramier, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 444. 



COLUMBA. Generic Characters. Beak of moderate strength, straight at 

 the base, compressed, the point deflected. Base of the upper mandible 

 covered with a soft skin in which the nostrils are pierced. Feet, three toes 



