GREEN-WINGED DOVE. 
SO contributes to the obesity of our Epicurean 
countrymen. 
Anciently, we incline to believe, the whole 
genus were, in England, confined to three 
classes, and all denominated Doves : the Stock 
Dove, the Ring Dove, and the Turtle Dove. 
From these, domesticated, and occasionally 
breeding together, added to what have been 
brought from other countries, with their sub- 
sequent intermixtures, have originated, as it 
should seem, all the various families of those 
birds, commonly called Pigeons, which are now 
found in Great Britain. 
In support of our favourite name, as it ap- 
plies to the Ring Dove, for example, we may 
adduce the Dutch Ring Duve ; the Flemish 
Kriess Duve ; the Swedish Ring Dufwa ; and 
the Danish Ringel Due. 
We mav also remark that, though the word 
Pigeon appears to be universally adopted for 
all the birds of this genus, when living in a 
domesticated state, the place in which tlicv are 
kept is far more frequentlv called a Dovc-Cot, 
t)r Dovc-House, than a Pigeon-House. 
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