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TURTLE. 



Class 11. 



4. Turtle. Columba. Turtur. C. rectrici- 

 bus apice albls, dorso griseo, 

 pectore incarnato, macula 

 lateral! colli nigra lineolis 

 albis. Lath. hid. orn. 605. 

 id. Syn. iv. 644. id. Sup. 

 i. WJ- 



La Turtrelle. Belon av. SOg. 



Turtur. Gesner av. 31 6. 



Turtur. Aldr. av. ii. 235. 



Tortora. Olina, 34. 



The Turtle-dove. Wil. orn. 

 183. 



Bail Syn. av. 6l. 



Wilde Turtel taube. Kram. 



359. 

 Turtel-Taube. Frisch, i. 140. 

 Le Tourterelle. Brisson av. i. 



92. Hist, d'ois. ii. 545. PL 



Enl. 394. 

 Scopoli, No. 181. 

 Columba Turtur. Gm. Lin. 



276. 

 Br. Zool. 89. plate O. 1. 



XHIS species is found in Buckinghamshire, 

 Gloucestershire, Shropshire, and in the West of 

 England. They are very shy and retired birds, 

 breeding in thick woods, generally of oak : we 

 believe that they reside in Buckinghamshire 

 during the breeding season, migrating into the 

 other counties in autumn.* 



About the year 1785, a pair came into my 

 garden at Downing in the winter season and 

 continued there two or three weeks. I have seen 



* The stomach of a Turtle Dove examined by the reverend 

 Hugh Davies in the month of October, contained only some 

 seed of the Polygonum aviculare, of rape and of mustard ; it must 

 therefore at that season have declined from choice every species 

 of bread-corn. Ed. 



