4UG RASORES. COLUMBA. Ring-Dove. 



RING-DOVE OR CUSHAT. 



CoLUMBA Palumsus, Litm. 

 PLATE LVI. Fig. 1. 



Columba Palumbus, Linn. 1. p. 282. sp. 19 Faun. Suec. No. 208 Gmel. 



Syst. 1. p. 796. sp. 19 — Lath. Ind. Ornith. v. 2. p. 601. sp. 32 Briss. 1. 



p. 89. G. 



Palumbus torquatus. Rail Syn. p. 62. A. 9 Will. p. 135. t. 35. 



L,e Pigeon Ramier, Buffi. Ois. v. 2. p. 531. t. 24 — Id. PI. Enl. 31 G — Temm. 



Pig. et Gall. v. 1. p. 78 — Id. fol. pi. 2. 

 Colombe Ramier, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. v. 2. p. 444. 

 Ringel Taube, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. v. 3. p. 949 Meyer, Tasschenb. 



Deut. V. 1. p. 286 Frisch, Vog. t. 138. 



Ring Duif, Sepp. Neperl. Vog. v. 1. t. p. 9. 



Ring Pigeon, Br. Zool. 1. No. 102 Arct. Zool. 2. p. 329. B Will. 



(Angl.) p. 185. t. 35 Lath. Svn. 4. p. 635. 29 Id. Supp. p. 198 — 



Lewin's^v. Birds, 4. t. 129 — Albin.U.t. iG.—Pult. Cat. Dorset, p. 7 



Wale. Syn. 2. t. 187- 

 Ring Dove, Mont. Ornith. Diet Bewiclc's Br. Birds, 1. t. p. 270. 



Provincial — Quest, Wood Pigeon, Cushat. 



The Ring-Dove is the largest of the European species. It 

 is indigenous with us, and is met with in all wooded and en- 

 closed parts of the kingdom, and is not anywhere migratory, 

 as has been supposed and asserted by some of our naturalists. 

 It is amongst the earliest breeders of our native birds, usual- 

 ly pairing, and uttering its cooing notes, towards the latter 

 part of February, at which time it also commences a peculiar 

 flight, by rising and falling in the air, and, when at its great- 

 est elevation, bringing the upper surfaces of its wings so for- 

 cibly into contact as to be heard at a considerable distance. 

 This mode of flight is confined to the male bird. 



The Cushat visually produces two or three broods in the 

 course of the year, but never more than two young birds at 

 the same hatching. 

 Nest, &c. The nest is wide and shallow formed of small twigs loosely 

 put together, and placed in an upper fork, or amidst the 

 * close branches of some moderately tall tree, those of the fir 



tribe being chiefly preferred ; and the ivy encircling them, 



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