PIGEON. 



* WITH MODERATE TAILS. 



1 — STOCK PIGEON. 



Columba Oenas, Ind.Orn.W. p. 589. Lin.'i. 279. 1. /3. Faun. suec. No. 207. Gm. 



Lin.'i. 769. Frisch, t. 139. Georgi, p. 173. Faun, arag . 83. Faun.arab.7. 11. 



Sep/>, Fog-, t. p. 13. A>aOT.358. 1. Schcef. el. t. 28. Rail, 62. A. 10. Wi//. 136. 



t. 35. 7d. £ng7. 185. Bra, i. 86. Id. 8vo. i. 20. .Brwjj. No. 203. Borowsk. iii. 



207. 2. Tern. Man. d'Orn. 177. Jrf. £d. ii. 446. 

 Columba sylvestris, Roman. Orn. i. 82. t. 13. 



Lignorum proprie, Klein, 119. 8. Id. Ov. 33. 



Palumbus minor, Klein, Stem. 27. t. 29. f. 2. a — c. 



Holtz Taube, Gunth. Nest. u. Ey. t. 88. Naturf. xvii. 74. Bechst. Deutsch. iii. 271. 



Colombe Colombin, 7'ewz. Pig.fol. pi. 11. Jd. 8vo. i. p. 118. 



Stock Pigeon, or Stock Dove, Gen.Syn.'w. 604. Id. Sup. 197. Br.Zool.'i. No. 101. 



pi. 45. Id. ii. Add. Id.fol. pi. 88. O. Id. Ed. 1812. i. p. 390. Arct. Zool. ii. 



329. A. Albin,'\\. pi. 46. Orn. Diet. 



LENGTH fourteen inches. Bill pale red ; the head ash-colour ; 

 hind part of the neck and sides green gold, glossed with copper, in 

 different lights; upper part of the back, and wings dull ash-colour; 

 lower part of the back, rump, and upper tail coverts paler ash ; fore 

 part of the neck the same, the lower and breast vinaceous; belly, 

 thighs, and under tail coverts like the rump ; the four or five outer 

 quills black, with the exterior edges white; the rest ash-colour, with 

 the ends black, and reach to the end of the tail, which is much like 

 the quills, with one-third of the end black ; two of the outer feathers 

 white from the base to the middle, on the outer edge ; the legs red, 

 claws black. 



Inhabits various parts of England, and generally breeds in hollow 

 and rocky places on the coasts ; not unfrequently in ruined buildings, 

 or holes of decayed trees. 



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