STOCK DOVE, or WOOD PIGEON. 



VOL. I. Page 290. 

 Of the STOCK DOVE, or WOOD PIGEON. 



CEnas five vinago. Wil, Orn. 185. 



'"T'HIS bird has been confounded with the Wild 

 Pigeon, and the Rock Pigeon, and made the 

 origin of the domeftic kind. I firft had an op- 

 portunity of correcting my error, * by feeing the 

 true Stock Dove in the Lever ian Mufeum, which 

 fatisfied me that Mr. Willughby, with great juftice, 

 defcribed it as a diftincl fpecies. 



It is equal in fize to the common kind, perhaps Sizs. 

 larger. The weight of a male is fourteen ounces : 

 its extent of wing, twenty-fix inches : its length, 

 fourteen. 



The bill is of a light red : the head, neck, and Color. 

 upper part of the back, of a dark grey ; the lower 

 part, and rump, changes into an elegant light 

 grey : the primary feathers of the wings, are dufky : 

 coverts and fecondaries, deep grey, marked with 

 two black fpots on the exterior webs : the lower 

 half of the exterior webs of the two outermoft fea- 

 thers of the tail, are white : the reft, cinereous, 

 with their ends black. 



The fides of the neck, of a variable glofTy 

 green : the breaft, of pale purplifh or vinaceous 

 color : the belly cinereous : legs red. 



Breeds in hollow flocks of trees, and fometimes. Plac*. 



on the tops: from which it derives its name of 



* By Linnaeus alfoj who makes it fynonymous with, th? 

 Tarns Pigeon, 



Stock 



