TURTLE-DOVE. RASORES. COLUMBA. 413 



TURTLE DOVE. 



COLUMBA TURTUR, Linn. 

 PLATE LVI. FIG. 2. 



Columba Turtur, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 284. sp. 32 Gmel Syst. 1. p. 786. sp. 32- 



Lath. Ind.Ornith. v. 2. p. 605. sp. 47 Rail Syn. p. 61. A. 2 Will. 



p. 134. t. 35 Briss. 1. p. 92. 7. 



Turtur auritus, Rail Syn. p. 184. t. 26. 



La Tourterelle, Buff, Ois. v. 2. p. 545. t. 25 Id. PL Enl. 394 7Vw,m. 



Pig. et Gall. v. 1. p. 305 Id. edit. fol. pL 42 Id. Man. d'Ornith. v. 2. 



p. 448. 

 Turtel Taube, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. v. 3. p. 1076. Meyer -, Tasschenb. 



Deut. v. 1. p. 289. Frisch, Vog. t. 140. 

 Tortel Duif, Sepp. Nederl. Vog. v. i. t. p. 11. 

 Common Turtle, Br. Zool. No. 103. t. 45 Albin, 2. t. 47. & 48, Will. 



(Angl.) p. 183. t. 35 Lath. Syn. 4. p. 644. 40. var. A, B, C, D Id. 



Supp. p. 199. Hayeks Br. Birds, [t. 14 Lewies Br. Birds, 4. t. 130 



Pult. Cat. Dorset, p. 7 Wale. Syn. 2. t 188. 

 Turtle Dove, Mont. Ornith. Diet Bewick's Br. Birds, v. 1. t. 272. 



THIS delicate bird is only a visitant of this country during periodical 

 the summer, arriving on our shores about the latter part of vlsltant - 

 April, or the beginning of May, and departing, after incu- 

 bation, as early as in the commencement of September. Its 

 distribution here is even limited to two or three of the south- 

 ern, and some of the midland counties. It is found most 

 plentifully in Kent, where it breeds in the thickest woods ; 

 and is sometimes seen in flocks of twenty or more, frequent- 

 ing the pea-fields as soon as the produce begins to ripen. 

 MONTAGU states that it is found, though rarely, as far to 

 the westward as Devonshire. I have never met with it in 

 the northern counties as a summer resident, but a few indi- 

 viduals have been killed in Northumberland in the autumn, 

 which were in all probability driven out of the course of 

 their equatorial migrations from some of the northern pro- 

 vinces of Europe. The specimen that furnished the present 

 drawing was killed upon the coast near to North Sunderland, 

 in the above mentioned county, in the autumn 1818, and is 

 now in my collection. BEWICK mentions a flock seen at 



