590 



STOCK DOVE. 



Class IL 



2. Stock 

 Dove. 



Columba CEnas. C. coerule- 

 scens, cervice viridi-nitente, 

 dorso posLico cinerascente, 

 fascia alaram duplici apice- 

 que caudjE nigricante. Lath. 

 Jnd. orn.. 58g. id. Sy7i. iv. 

 604. id. Sup. i. 197. 



CEnas seu vinago. Rail Syn. 

 av. 62. A. 10. 



Gesner av. 307- 



Stock dove or Wood Pigeon. 



IVillnghhy orn. 185. 

 Le Pigeon sauvage. Brisson 



av. i. 86. 

 Le Pigeon fuyard. Belon av. 



78. G;«. Li?i. 769. 

 Arct. Zool. ii. 9. 



Descrip- XHE head, neck, and beginning of the back, 

 are of a fine bluish grey ; the sides of the neck 

 marked with a variable green spot ; the coverts 

 of the wings grey, the most remote marked 

 w ith black spots ; the primaries dusky ; the 

 secondaries grey, the farthest spotted like the 

 coverts ; the lower part of the back and the 

 rump of a very pale grey ; the breast vina- 

 ceous ; the belly of a light grey ; the tail of the 

 same color, except the exterior side of the 

 outmost feather, ^hich is white ; the ends of 

 ail are black. The length is fourteen inches 

 and a half; the extent, two feet two; the 

 weight fourteen ounces. 



Manners. This species is migratory, and arrivesin Hamp- 

 shire the latest of any bird of passage. Flocks 

 of them appear towards the latter end of No- 



