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40; Coiumba Turtur, Lin. Syfl. i. p. 284. N° 32.-- Scop. am. i. N° 181 .— 



4 *TURTLe! N Kram eL P- 359- 3;r Fr V®- *• HO.-Georgi Rei/e, p. 173. 



La Tourterelle, Brif. em. i. p. 92. N° 7. — Buf. oif. ii. p. 545. pi. 25.— 



PI. ml. 394. 

 Turtle Dove, Rati Sjn. p. 61. A. 2. — #7//. am. p. 183. pi. 35. — Alhin. ii. 

 pi. 47. — Br. Zool. i. N° 103. pi. 45. — Aril. Zoeh 

 Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



Description, rp ^ jr I en gth of this bird is above twelve inches. The bill is 

 , brown : the irides yellow : the eyes furrounded with crimfbn: 



the top of the head cinereous olive: the forehead and chin nearly 

 white : on each fide of the neck is a patch of black, feathers with 

 white tips : the back is afli-coloured,. margined with reddifh 

 brown : fcapulars and wing coverts reddifh brown ; each feather 

 black in the middle : quills brown, with pale edges and tips : 

 the fore part of the neck and breaft vinaceous, but pale : the 

 lower part of the bread and fides dufky grey : the belly, thighs, 

 and vent, white : the two middle feathers of the tail are brown j 

 the others darker, tipped with white ; and the outer one white 

 on the outer edge : the legs reddifh. 

 Place and This bird is very common in thefe kingdoms, and I believe is 



Manners. wholly migratory, none having been obferved after the time of 

 departing in autumn. It arrives later, and departs fooner, than any 

 other of the Pigeon tribe ; and is pretty common in Kent, where it 

 is often feen in woods during the fummer, and frequents the 

 Pea-fields in flocks of twenty or more, as foon as the Peas begin 

 to ripen, of which it fometimes deftroys too many, and continues 

 thus doing till the departure, which is about the end of Angufi 



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