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or beginning of September. They build for the mofl part in the 

 thick woods, on the higheft trees : lay two eggs, like the other 

 fpecies, and are fuppofed to breed but once in the feafon ; which is 

 the more probable, as their ftay in this country at lead is two 

 months fhorter than the other fpecies which frequent us. 



I obferve that Mr. Pennant, as well as Scopoli, are both fcru- 

 pulous of adding the fynonym of Linnaeus to this bird ; but I 

 make no doubt of either this or the firft variety being the iden- 

 tical fpecies meant by him, though he particularifes his as Indian. 

 Brijfon mentions a drawing of one fent from China, no ways dif- 

 fering from the bird by him defcribed, except the whole of the 

 under parts being vinaceous : it is his opinion likevvife, that the 

 Ear Dove of Shane * is the fame bird: and in the Indian Zoology f, 

 the European 'Turtle is mentioned as an inhabitant of Java. 



40. 

 Var. a. 

 SPOTTED- 

 NECKED T. 

 I N the Leverian Mufeum is a bird fliot in Buckinghamjhire, Description, 



which differs from the common one in having almoft the 

 whole fide of the neck black, inftead of a patch only; and inftead 

 of each feather being tipped with white, there is a round fpot 

 of white on each very near the end, giving the fides of the neck 

 a moft beautiful appearance. I have been likewife informed, 

 that many of this fort have been obferved in this county. 



Among fome birds which came from the laft expedition to the 

 South Seas,\ obferve one of thefe; but as it was in a parcel where- 

 in were fome others which belonged to the Cape of Good Hope, 



* H'ft- 7 am - « P- 3°4- t- 262. f.2.—RaitSj». p. 184. 26. 

 t P. 42. — This too is noticed in Oft. Voy. i, p. 158. 



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