138 columbidjE. 



Columba palumbus. Ring-Dove. 



Columba Palumbus, LimuBus, S. N. i. p. 383 (1766). 



Columba palumbus, Nauru, vi. p. 168; Macg. i. p. 359 

 Hewitson, p. 371 ; Gray, p. 130; Yarr. ed. 3, ii. p. 377 

 id. ed. 3j ii. p. 387 ; Hurting, p. 36 ; Dresser, vii. p. 3 

 Saunders, iii. p. 1. 



Palumbus torquatus, Gould, iv. pi. 1. 



The Ring Dove, or Wood Pigeon, Yarr. ed. 1^ ii. p. 249. 



Palumbus = a Wood-Pigeon, in classical Latin ; akin to ireXeia, TreXos, pulhis, 

 " dark." 



Generally distributed and common throughout Great 

 Britain and Ireland, and found throughout the Western 

 Palaearctic Region, except in the far north ; ranging only a 

 short distance into the Eastern Palaearctic Region, where it 

 is replaced by Columba casiotis. 



Columba cenas. Stock-Dove. 



Columba Oenas, Linnceus (partim), S. N. i. p. 279 

 (1766). 



Columba cenas, Naum. vi. p. 315 ; Macg. i. p. 387; Hewitson, 

 p. 373; Gray, p. 120; Gould, iv. pi. 2; Harting, p. 36; 

 Dresser, vii. p. 23 ; Saunders, iii. p. 8. 



Columba aenas, Yar?-. ed. 2, ii. p. 383 ; id. ed. 3, ii. p. 393. 



The Stock Dove, Yan'. ed. 1, ii. p. 354.. 



Oenas = olvas, a wild Pigeon the colour of ripening grapes {o'tvri — the vine), 

 in Aristotle, which Graza translates Vinago. 



The Stock-Dove is found in most parts of England, though 

 somewhat local in its distribution, and is most numerous in 

 some of the midland and eastern counties, but it does not 

 occur in Scotland or Ireland. It is generally distributed 

 throughout the Western Palaearctic Region as far north as 

 the limit of the growth of the oak, and ranges into Asia 

 about as far as Persia. 



