R A SORES. 



RING DOVE. 



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COLUMBIDAl. 



THE RING DOVE, OR WOOD PIGEON. 



THE QUEEST, AND THE CUSHAT. 



Columba palumbus. 



Columba palumbus, Ring Dove, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 392. 



MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 



BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 31 7. 



FLEM. Brit. An. p. 47. 



SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 406 



JENVNS, Brit. Vert. p. 161. 



Wood Pigeon, GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. viii. 



Colombe rainier, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 444. 



COLUMBA. Generic Cliaracters. Beak of moderate strength, straight at the 

 base, compressed, the point deflected. Base of the upper mandible covered 

 with a soft skin in which the nostrils are pierced. Feet, three toes in front, 



