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TURTLE. 



Class II. 



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

 bus apice albis, dorso griseo, 

 pectore incarnato, macula 

 laterali colli nigra lineolis 

 albis. Lath. Ind. orn. 605. 

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

 i- 199- 



La Turtrelle. Belon av. 3QQ. 



Turtur. Gesner av. 3l6. 



Turtur. Aldr. av. ii. 235. 



Tortora. Olina, 34- 



The Turtle-dove. Wil. orn. 

 183. 



Rail Syn. av. 6] . 



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. 



J_HIS 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. 



