390 



STOCK DOVE. 



Class II. 



2. Stock 

 Dove. 



Columba CEnas. C. coerule- 

 scens, cervice viridi-nitente, 

 dorso postico cinerascente, 

 fascia alarum duplici apice- 

 que caudae nigricante. Lath. 

 Ind. orn. 58Q. id. Syn. iv. 

 604. id. Sup. i. 197. 



CEnas seu vinago. Rati Sy7i. 

 av. 62. A. 10. 



Gesner av. 307. 



Stock dove or Wood Pigeon. 



Willugliby orn. 185. 

 Le Pigeon sauvage. Brisson 



av. i. 86. 

 Le Pigeon fuyard. Belon av. 



78. Gm. Lin. 769. 

 Arct. Zool. ii. 9. 



Descrif 

 tiox. 



_LHE head, neck, and beginning of the back, 

 are of a fine bluish grey ; the sides of the neck 

 marked with a variable green spot ; the coverts 

 of the wings grey, the most remote marked 

 with black spots ; the primaries dusky ; the 

 secondaries grey, the farthest spotted like the 

 coverts ; the lower part of the back and the 

 rump of a very pale grey; the breast vina- 

 ceous ; the belly of a light grey ; the tail of the 

 same color, except the exterior side of the 

 outmost feather, which is white; the ends of 

 all are black. The length is fourteen inches 

 and a half; the extent, two feet two; the 

 weight fourteen ounces. 

 Manners. This species is migratory, and arrivesin Hamp- 

 shire the latest of any bird of passage. Flocks 

 of them appear towards the latter end of No- 



