120 BRITISH AND EUROPEAN BIRDS. 



On a rock high, commanding, the monarch, atlength, 

 Perch'd with grace while displaying his wings of broad 

 strength. 



tionable, although the poets have been so profuse in their appeals 

 to it. One of the latest poems relative to the Dove, is written 

 and set to music by Mr. Bowles ; it is a song of which the fol- 

 lowing is the first stanza : 



'' Go beautiful and gentle Dove 

 And greet the morning ray, 

 For lo ! the sun shines bright above, 

 And the rain is pass'd away." 



The Carolinensis, Carolina Pigeon, or Turtle-dove, of the 

 United States, is twelve inches long ; upper part of the neck 

 and wings slaty blue; back, scapulars, and lesser wing coverts, 

 ashy brown; tertials spotted with black; primaries edged with 

 white ; beneath whitish ; eggs two, deposited in a nest rudely 

 constructed in an evergreen, a vine, an apple tree, or on the 

 ground ; male and female unite in feeding the young. Its coo- 

 ing sounds very melancholy, but is nevertheless not so, in reali- 

 ty, being the notes of its amorous affection ; feeds on a variety of 

 seeds and berries ; flesh good. This bird winters in the South- 

 ern, and is frequent in the Northern States of America, during 

 the summer. 



The Passerina, Ground Pigeon, or Mountain Dove, has a 

 purplish body, wings and tail dusky. Three other varieties ; 

 six and a quarter inches long : inhabits the warm parts of 

 America; feeds on seeds; frequents rocky and mountainous 



places. 



" Musical 



The love-lorn cooing of the mountain dove 

 That woos to pleasing thonghtfulness flte soul." 



Graingkr's Sugar-cane. 



The J^Jigraloria, or Passenger Pigeon, inhabits North 

 America; body above cinereous, beneath vinaceous; breast 



