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The Turtle Dove has the beak brown ; the irides 

 reddish brown; under the eye is a small patch of 

 naked red skin ; the head and nape are bluish grey ; 

 on the side of the neck are some black feathers, 

 tipped and partially margined with white ; the back, 

 scapulars, rump and tail-coverts are bluish grey, a 

 good deal tinged with rusty nearly all the feathers 

 of these parts are darker in the centre ; the wing- 

 coverts are black in the centre, broadly mar- 

 gined with orange-rusty; some of the outside 

 wing-coverts are bluish grey ; the quills are dusky, 

 the tertials margined with rusty brown; the two 

 centre feathers of the tail are dusky, the rest 

 dark lead-blue, each feather broadly tipped with 

 white, and the outer web of the outside feather on 

 each side is white the shafts of all are black ; the 

 cheeks and throat are dirty yellowish white; the 

 breast is bluish grey, very strongly tinged with pur- 

 plish pink; the rest of the under parts are nearly 

 white. Yarrell describes "the young bird of the 

 year up to the time of its leaving this country," as 

 having " the beak dark brown ; the general colour of 

 the plumage of the head and body hair-brown ; the 

 back rather darker than the front of the neck ; the 

 wing-coverts tipped with huffy white ; the flight- or 

 quill-feathers slightly tinged on their outer edges 

 with rufous ; belly and under tail- coverts white ; 

 flanks bluish grey ; tail-feathers above hair-brown, 

 on the under surface blackish brown ; the white part 



