296 
102. Rrnc. 
DESCRIP. 
RING DOVE. CrAssie. 
to bill in their courthhip ; for the male and female — 
to fit by turns, and alfo to feed their young; to 
caft their provifion out of their craw into the young 
ones’ mouths; to drink, not like other birds by fip- 
ping, but by continual draughts hke quadrupeds ; 
and to have notes mournful, or plaintive. 
Le Ramier. Belon av. 307. Raii fyn. av. 62. 
Phaffa. Belon obf. 13. Columba palumbus. Liz. fj jit 
Palumbus. Ge/uer av. 310. Spe 2825 
Palumbus major five torquatus. Ringdufwa, Siutut. Fauz. 
Aldr. ao, IV. 227. Suec. fp. 208. 
Colombaccio. Ola, 54. Wildtaube, — Ringltaube, 
Ring-dove, Queeft, or Cufhat. Kram. 359. 
Wil. orn. x8 ce Ringel- Taube. frifch, 1. 
he Pigeon Ramier. Briffon av. 138. 
i 80. Hift. d’ Oys. Ul. 531. Dan. Ringel-due. Ee ducisey 
Griunik. Scopoli, No. 178. Skude. Brunnich, 204. 
Br. Zool. 89. pre O. 
HIS fpecies forms its neft of a few dry fticks 
in the boughs of trees: attempts have 
been made to domefticate them, by hatching their 
eocs under the common pigeon in dove houfes ; 
but as foon as they could fly, they always took ~ 
to their proper haunts. In the beginning of the 
winter they afiemble in great flocks, and leave 
off cooing; which they begin in March, when 
they pair. The ring dove is the largeft pigeon we 
have; and may be at once diftinguifhed from all 
others by the fize. Its weight is about twenty 
ounces; © 
