COLUMBA PALUMBUS. 
RING-DOVE. 
Generic Character, 
Bill weak and (lender. 
Noflrils placed in a foft protuberance that covers the 
bafe of the bill. 
Tongue entire. 
Toes " divided to their oridn," 
Synonyms. 
CoLUMBA Palumbus. Lin S)jl. 1, p. 282. 19. Ind, 
Orn. 2. p. 601. 32. Curtiis M/s^ 
RiNG-PiGEON. £r, ZooJ, 1. 102. lb. fol. 89. tab, O. 
Ar5i, Zool. 2, p. 329. tab B, Lath. 
Syn. 4. p. 635. 29. Ib.fupt, p. 198. 
RiNG-DovE. Mont. Orn. Bi^, Vol 1. Bewick's Br. 
Birds ^ Pi. i.p. 272." 
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JL H 1 S fpecies is about eighteen inches in length, in breadth 
twenty-nine, and its ufual weight is nearly twenty ounces. 
Bill very foft ; irides yellow ; legs feathered below the knee ; 
the female is rather lefs, but correfponds in colour with the 
male. 
The Wood -Pigeon (as it is ufually called) begins its neft 
early in the fpring ; it is loofely formed of fmall flicks, and 
is of fuch a flimfy texture, that the eggs may generally be feen 
through 
