PIGEONS AND DOVES. 181 



heard continually in spring. Like the Pigeon*, it 

 feeds in the open, moving with an easy, stepping 

 gait as it seeks its food of grain or seeds in fallow, 

 stubble, or grass lands. It is of a less gregarious 

 habit than the Pigeons, but has all their freedom of 

 wing, roaming far and wide over the land in high 

 flight 



RING DOVE, STOCK-DOVE, ROCK -DOVE. -All of a 

 generally gray tone, aa dUtinguiabed from UM generally 

 ruddy colour of the Turtle- Dove. 



