General 
descrip- 
tion. 
292 COLUMBA. COLUMBA. Rock Dove. 
Head and throat deep bluish-grey. Sides of the neck 
glossed with different shades of green and purple; the 
feathers shorter, more distinct, and stiffer than those of 
the Rock-Dove. Lower parts of the neck and breast 
pale lavender purple. Belly, thighs, and under tail- 
coverts bluish-grey, with a slight purplish tinge. Back. 
deep bluish-grey. Wing-coverts paler, and some of the 
greater ones spotted and barred with black, but not 
forming any defined bar, as in the above-mentioned spe- 
cies. Quills blackish-grey; the outer webs, near the 
base of the feathers, passing into. bluish-grey. Lower 
part of the back and tail-coverts bluish-grey. Tail 
bluish-erey, with a broad black bar at the end; and ha- 
ving the outermost feather margined with white. Wings, 
when closed, reaching to about half the length of the 
tail. rides brownish-red. Legs and toes bright ce- 
chineal-red. 
The female scarcely differs from the male bird, except that 
the iridescent reflections upon the neck are not so bright. 
vy Roek Dove.—Coiumba livia, Linn: 
PLATE 56*. Fig. 2 
Columba livia, Briss. Ornith. v. Ll. p. 82. sp. 5.—Zath. Ind. Ornith. v. 2: 
p- 590. sp. 2. var: B. 
Colombe Biset, Buff: Ois. v. 2. p. 498.——Id. Pl. Enl. 510.— Temm. Pig. et 
Gall. v. 1. p. ¥25.—/d. edit. fol. pl. 12.—Jd. Man. d’Ornith. v. 2. p. 4463 
Haustaube, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. v. 3. p. 971.—Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. . 
v. 1. p. 288. 
Biset, va White-rumped Pigeon, Lath. Syn. 4. p. 605. 2. A. 
Rock Dove, Mont. Ornith. Dict.—Jd. Sup. 
The Wild Pigeon, Bewick, 1. p. t. 267. 
The Common, Pigeon, or Wild Dove, Low’s Faun. Orcad. p. 52. 
Provincial, Rockier. 
Although this species seems to have fallen frequently un- 
der the notice of our ornithologists, (as may be gathered 
from their descriptions, and the localities they have given to 
it), yet it has evidently always been attended by the origmat 
