TurtLe Dove. COLUMBH. COLUMBA. 295 
Turtel Taube, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. v. 3. p. 1076.—Meyer, Tasschenb. 
Deut. v. 1. p. 289.—Frisch. Vog. t. 140. 
Tortel Duif, Sepp. Nederl Vég. v. i. t. p. 11. 
Commen Turtle, Br. Zool. No. 103. t. 45.—<ddbin. 2. t..47. & 48.—Will. 
(Angl.) p. 183. t. 35.—Lath. Syn. 4. p. 644. 40. var. A, B, C, D.—Zd. 
Supp. p. 199.—Haye’s Br. Birds, t. 14.—Lewin’s Br. Birds, 4. t. 130.— 
Pult. Cat. Dorset. p. 7.—Wale. Syn. 2. t. 188. 
Turtle Dove, Mont. Ornith. Dict.—Bewick’s Br. Birds, v. 1. p. t. 272. 
This delicate bird is only a visitant of this country Jtiae Periodical 
the summer, arriving on our shores about the latter part of cane 
April, or the beginning of May, and departing, after incu- 
bation, as early as in the commencement of September. Its 
distribution here is even limited to two or three of the south- 
ern counties. It is found most plentifully in Kent, where it 
breeds in the thickest woods; and is sometimes seen in flocks 
of twenty or more, frequenting the pea-fields as soon as the 
produce begins to ripen. Monracu states that it is found, 
though rarely, as far to the westward as Devonshire. I have 
never met with it in the northern and midland counties as a 
summer resident, but a few individuals have been killed in 
Northumberland in the autumn, which were, in all proba- 
bility, driven out of the course of their equatorial migra- 
tion from some of the northern provinces of Kurope. The 
specimen that furnished the present drawing was killed upon 
the coast near to North Sunderland, in the above mentioned 
county, in the autumn of 1818, and 1s now in my collection. 
Berwick mentions a flock seen at Prestwick Car, near New- 
castle-upon-Tyne, in the autumn of 1794, and describes one 
of them that was shot, which appears to have been a bird of 
that year, as it wanted the black patch on the side of the neck. 
—The Turtle- Dove builds in the closest woods, forming a shal- Nest, &c. 
low nest of small twiys, and laying two eggs, (as is the case 
with the whole of this genus), of an oval shape, white, and 
almost half the size of those of the Common Pigeon. 
It is found through all the temperate parts of Europe ; 
but does not extend within the Arctic Circle. It it sedenta- 
ry in some few of the southern provinces, but in most of them 
periodically migratory. 
