GREEN-WIKGED BOVE. 
Nor, after all, though we frequently find 
the Stock Dove, converted into Stock Pigeon^ 
and the Ring Dove sometimes into Ring Pi- 
geon, do we ever remember to have seen the 
Turtle Dove called a Turtle Pigeon, by any 
naturalist whatever. Bufton, however, drop- 
ping the word Dove, calls it simply the Tur- 
tle, or Common Turtle ; against which we 
have already entered a protest. 
To oppose our opinion against the great 
names which have been quoted, would cer- 
tainly be presumptuous. But, as enquiry is 
open to all, and every author is free to offer 
his sentiments, which everv reader is equally 
as free either to adopt or to rcje6l, we see no 
reason for restraining the impulse which wc 
feel to enlarge a little, in behalf of an ac~ 
knowledged favourite, whom we do not wish 
to have entirely banished from our groves. 
Though the amiable poet. Goldsmith, in 
his History of the Earth and Animated Na- 
ture, speaks of Doves under the general name 
of Pigeons, and seems inclined, like other na-. 
turalists, to abandon them, we can trace, as 
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