GREEN-WINGED DOVE. 
a poetical mind, not conversant with the 
systematic arrangements of nature, it must be 
no small mortification to find, on perusing the 
works of some of the most able naturalists, 
that the Dove, that great favourite of every 
child of Fancy — whose very name is as fa- 
vourable to verse, as analogous to love, the 
supreme topic — is now rarely noticed; at 
least, under it's original appellation. 
LinnjEus, the great master of the art of ar- 
ranging nature, describes under the word Co- 
lumbae, wliich is literally Pigeons, all the 
Doves, as they have been commonly deno- 
minated, as well as all the different classes of 
Pigeons; and his plan seems adopted by Pen- 
nant, Latham, and others. 
BufFon, with an almost equal disregard of 
poetical feelings, recognizes them, it is true, 
as distin6t from tlie Pigeon, but he calls them 
Turtles; a name to which, as Knglrshmen, 
we should beg leave to object, were it only 
from the circumstance of it\s being the same 
word as that which distinouishcs the famous 
amphibious animal, whose luscious green fiit 
so 
