feet: TUR TL EF 
ounces: its leneth eighteen inches; its breadth 
thirty. The head, back, and coverts of the wings 
are of a bluifh ath color: the lower fide of the 
neck and the breaft are of a purplifh red, dafhed 
with afh color: on the hind part of the neck is 
a femicircular line of white; above and beneath 
that the feathers are clofly, and of changeable 
colors as oppofed to the light. The belly is of a 
dirty white: the greater quil feathers are dufky 
the reft afh colored: underneath the baftard wing 
is a white ftroke pointing downwards. 
La Turtrelle. Belox av. 309. Wilde Turtel taube. Kram. 
Turtur. Ge/ner av. 316. 
oes 
Turtur. Aldr. av. ll. 235. Turtel-Taube. Frifch, I. 140. 
Tortora. Ona, 34. Le Tourterelle. Briffon av. 
The Turtle-dove. Wil. orz. I. 92. Scopok, No. 181. 
183. Br. Zool. 8g. plate O. 1. 
Raii /yn. av. 61. Hift. d’ Oys. Il. 545. 
'HIS fpecies is found in Buckinghamfhire, 
Gloucefterfbire, Shropfbire, and in the Weft of 
England. They are very fhy and retired birds, 
breeding in thick woods, generally of oak: we 
believe that they refide in Buckinghamfbire during 
the breeding feafon, migrating into the other coun- 
tries in autumn. 
The length is twelve inches and a half, its breadth 
twenty-one: the weight four ounces, The irides 
VoL.i, - x are 
207 
DESCRIP. 
