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The love song has a pathetic tone which gives the name 

 "mourning." Orchards, groves, and roadsides grown up 

 with shrubbery are favorite nesting sites. The young are 

 fed after the manner of the albatross, petrels, and humming- 

 birds, as the predigested matter is introduced into the crop 

 of the young by regurgitation. 



Two white eggs are deposited in a loosely constructed 

 nest of sticks, near the ground in the East, sometimes on 

 the ground in the West. 



RING-NECKED DOVE* 



The popular names for this favorite bird are tui'tle dove, 

 common dove, and Carolina dove. It is an inhabitant of all 

 of temperate North America to a little north of the United 

 States boundary, south through Mexico and Central Amer- 

 ica to the Isthmus of Panama, Cuba, Jamaica, and some 

 other West Indian islands. The species have even been 

 known to winter as far north as Canada, JNIr. John J. JNIor- 

 ley, of Windsor, Ontario, informing Prof. Baird that he 

 had seen considerable numbers near that place on the 6th 

 of December, 1878, and that he had on other occasions seen 

 it in various places, from three to twelve at a time. It is 

 a common summer resident in Illinois. The majority arrive 

 the last of March or first of April, and depart by the middle 

 of October. In many places it becomes partly domesticated, 

 breeding in the trees in the yard and showing but little fear 

 when approached. 



