ciafs ir. 



RING-DOVE. 



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II. The R I N G « D O V E. 



Le Ramier. Belon a-v. 307. 

 PhafTa. Belon obf. 13. 

 Palumbus. Gefner a'v. t^xo. 

 Palumbus major five torquatus. 



Jidr. anj. ii. 227. 

 Colombaccio. Olina 54. 

 Rins;-dove, Queeft, or Gufhat. 



Wil. orn 185. 

 Le Pigeon Ramier. BriJJan a=v. i. 



89. 



Rail fyn. an}. 62. 



Columba palumbus. Lin, fyjl. 



Jp, 282. 

 Ringdufwa, Siutut. Faun. Succ. 



fp. 208. 

 Wildcaube, RingUaube. Kra7n. 



359- 

 Dan. Ringel-due, Bornholmisj 



Skude. Brunnich 204. 



Br. ZooL 89. plate O. 



THIS fpecics forms Its nefl of a few dry fticks 

 in the boughs of trees : attempts have been 

 made to domefticate them, by hatching their eggs 

 under the common pigeon in dove-houfes j but as 

 foon as they could fly, they always toke to their pro- 

 per haunts. In the beginning of the winter they af- 

 femble in great flocks, and leave oflf cooing ; which 

 they begin in March., when they pair. The ring- 

 dove is the largefl: pigeon we have ; and may be at 

 once di-flinguifhed from all others by the fize. Its 

 weight is about twenty ounces : its length eighteen 

 inches: its breadth thirty. The head, back, and 

 coverts of the wings are of a bkiifh afh color : the 

 lower fide of the neck and the bread are of a purplifh 

 red dafhed with afh color : on the hind part of the 

 neck is a femi-circular line of white; above and be- 

 neath that the feathers are glofly, and of changeable 

 colors as oppofed to the light. Tiie belly is of a dirty 

 white : the greater quil feathers are duflxy \ the reft 



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