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 'The Stock Dove, 



Numb. XLIV. 



T is as big as the common Pigeon, it weighed fourteen Ounces and 

 a half; its length was fourteen Inches, breadth, when the Wings 

 were extended, twenty fix. The Colour and Shape of the Body 

 almoft like the common Pigeon ; the Bill flender and of equal length, 

 and of a pale red Colour. The Top of the Head is cinereous, the Neck 

 covered with changeable Feathers, which, as they are varioufly objed:ed 

 to the Light, appear of a purple, blew, and fhining green; no Silk like 

 them. The fore part of the Bread, the Shoulders and Wings are dafhed 

 with purplilli or red- wine Colour, whence it took the Name {Oenas)'^ 

 the Wings, Shoulders, and middle of the Back are of a dark afh Colour, 

 the reft of the Back to the Tail of a paler; all the Quill-Feathers (ex- 

 cept the four or five outmoft, which are all over black, with light Ed- 

 ges) have their lower part cinereous, and their upper black, the Tail is 

 five Inches long, made up of twelve Feathers, having their upper part 

 cinereous, their lower, for one third of their length, black, the nether 

 fide of the Body, excepting the upper part of the Breaft, is all cinereous; 

 the Wings clofcd, reach not to the end of the Tail; in both Wings on 

 the upper Row of Coverts are two black Spots on the outfide the Shafts, 

 and not far from the tips of the Feathers ; the Legs and Feet are red, 

 the Claws black, the blind Guts very fhort. It had no Gall Bladder: 

 It had a large Craw full of Gromil Seeds, ^'c. and a mufculous Stomach, 

 long Tefticles, and a long Breaft-bone. 



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