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COLLARED TURTLE 



Turtur risorius. 

 PLATE XVII. 



Columba risoria, Auct Turtur torquatus Senegalensis, 

 Briss. 1. p. 124. t. 11. f. 1 Colombe blonde, Temm. Pig. 



1. p. 323 Tourterelle a collier, Buff. PL Enl No. 244 



Boitard et Corbie. Monog. des. Pigeons, p. 236. pi. 25. 



FROM a very remote period this species appears 

 to have been domesticated, or rather kept in that 

 state of captivity in which it is retained at the pre- 

 sent day ; for there is every reason to suppose that 

 the turtle dove adverted to in Holy Writ may be re- 

 ferred to the same bird, as it is still abundant in 

 Egypt and other parts of the East, where it is fos- 

 tered and cultivated with care, and it is certain that 

 many of the representations in the works of ancient 

 art, where the dove figures as the emblem of tender- 

 ness and affection, or where it is depicted as the ap- 

 propriate attendant of Venus, are accurate delinea- 

 tions of the Collared or domestic Turtle. 



This bird does not appear to be susceptible of 

 that attachment to its home or place of birth, fur 

 which the common or Dove-cot Pigeon is remark- 



