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The Greenland Dove. Columba Groenlandica. 



Numb. LXXXV. 



THIS Bird is about the Bignefs of a Pigeon^ and the 

 Cock is all black except a large white Spot inclining 

 to yellow on the middle of each Wing ; the Bill is black, 

 fharp pointed, and a little crooked at the End, and promi- 

 nent ; it hath in each Wing twenty fix quill Feathers. 



This Bird is looked upon to be the fame with that they 

 call the Greenland Dove in Holland^ and the Puffinet of the 

 Fame JJlands, which they fay is of the Bignefs of a Dove ; its 

 whole Body is black in the Summer time, excepting the 

 white Spot on the Wings, but in the Winter it turneth white ; 

 it has a fliarp Bill, and it builds its Neft in the Holes of the 

 Rocks, and lays two Eggs : It is thought to be the fame 

 with the TV^r^/f of the Bafs IJland near Edinburgh in Scot- 

 landy the Names and Bird very much agreeing. The Rea- 

 fon of giving it the Name of the Dove or Turtle, is from its 

 laying but two Eggs at one Time. 



The Legs of the Cock are red, thofe of the Hen of a 

 browniih Alli, both wanting the back Toe ; the Hen hath not 

 the white Spot on the Wing ; the Head, Neck, Back and 

 Wings are of a dark brown inclining to black, and the whole 

 Belly white. 



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