m 



RING DOVE. 



Class II. 



suspect the Stock Dove may likewise contri- 

 bute to add to the domestic kinds, as their 

 place of nidification in a state of nature is in 

 holes of trees, as that of the others is in holes 

 of rocks. 



3. Ring. Columba. Palumbus. C. cine- 

 rea, rectricibus postice atris, 

 remigibas primoribus mar- 

 gine exteriore albidis, collo 

 utrinque albo. Lath. Ind. 

 cm. 601. id. Syn. iv. 635. 

 id. Sup. i. 198. 



Le Rainier. Belon av. 307. 



Phassa. Belon ols. 13. 



Palumbus. Gesner av. 310. 



Palumbus major sive torqua- 



tus. Aldr. 



av. 11. 227. 



Colombaccio. OHna, 54. 

 Ring-dove, Queest, or Cushat. 

 fFil. orn. 185. 



Rati Syn. av. 62. 



Le Pigeon Ramier. Brisson av. 



I. 89. Hist, d'ois. ii. 531. 



PL EnL3l6. 

 Griunik. Scopoli, No. 178. 

 Columba Palumbus. Gin. Lin. 



776. 

 Ringdufwa, Siutut. Faun. 



Suec. sp. 208. 

 Wildtaube, Ringltaube. Kram. 



359. 

 Ringel-Taube. Frisch. i. 138. 

 Dan. Ringel-due Bornholmis, 



Skude. Brunnich, 204. 

 Br. Zool. 89. plate O. /Ircf. 



Zool. ii. 10. 



J-HIS species forms its nest of a few dry 

 sticks in the boughs of trees : attempts have 

 been made to domesticate them, by hatching 

 their eggs under the common pigeon in dove 

 houses ; but as soon as they could fly, they 

 always took to their proper haunts. In the 

 beginning of the winter they assemble in great 

 flocks, and leave off cooing ; which they begin 

 in March, when they pair. 



