PIGEON. 



brown, black, and white, mixed; with a fcalloped neck and breaft, 

 and black eyes. 



12. Pompadour Pigeon, Gen, Syn. iv. p.624. N" 12. 



POMPADOUR 



P. 



T N H AB ITS various parts of India. Common up the country 

 about Bengal, where it is called Cotula. It has a whiftling kind 

 of note, not unlike that of a Thrujh, very different from that of 

 ■other PigeoKS.-^Mr. Middleton, 



T4. 'Green-winged Pigeon, Gen. Syn. iv. p. 625. N* 14. 



^^'^ EdT^^^' Columba inaica, Jacq. Fog. p. 35. N" 29. pi. 16. 



A Variety is here mentioned, with the quills and tail feathers 

 green j wing coverts violet j and the rump and vent blue> 



29. ^ing Pigeon, Gen. Syn. iv. p. 635. N" z^.—ArS. Zool. ii. p. 329. E. 



Ar RING Po Columba palumbus, Sefp Fog. pi. in p. . — Faun. Arag. p. 83. 



T HAVE hitherto been uncertain whether the Ring Pigeon bred 

 twice in the year, or not; but have now authority to fay, that 

 Tt frequently, if not generally, does fo. A letter from my friend 

 and relation Mr. L. Porter, of Chertfey, in Surrey, runs thus i 

 ** The Ring Dove, no doubt, breeds twice in the year ; the neft 

 *^ being found, in the middle and end of Auguji, very commonly, 

 " in the heads o( willows, where they delight to build -, and, fonie 

 " years fince, I faw z female fhot as fhe kft the neft, the 22d of 

 ■*' September; when, getting up to the neft, which was placed on 

 . ■** a pollard mk, two eggs were found with young in them." 



This 



