It's legs are feathered almoft down to the feet. 
The head, the back, and the coverts of the wings, 
are of a blueifli afh-colour; the lower fide of the 
neck and the breaft are a purplifh red daflied with 
afh -colour; the upper part of the neck is adorned 
with a very regular and beautiful white circle, from 
which the bird receives it's name; and the whole 
neck, both above and below it, is delightfully va- 
riegated with changeable colours, according to the 
light in which they are viewed. The belly is a 
dirty wliite; the greater quill-feathers are dufl<y, 
the reft being cinereous; and beneath the baftard- 
wing there is a white ftroke which points down- 
wards. 
The Ring-Dove being the largeft bird of it's 
kind in Britain, is eafily diftinguiflied by it's fize. 
It weighs about twenty ounces; it's length is eigh- 
teen inches, and it's breadth thirty. It feldom flies 
fingly, but in large flocks; and it fubfifts on ivy- 
berries and other vegetable fubftances. Tliefe 
birds build their nefts in the branches of trees; but 
all attempts to domefticate them have hitherto 
proved inefix^ftual. About the commencement 
of the winter feafon they affernble in large flocks, 
and defift from cooing; but they pair again about 
the beginning of March. 
Dove, Turtle. This is a very beautiful 
little bird of the pigeon kind, found in feveral 
parts of England, but particularly in the weflrern 
counties. The head, neck, and back, are, like 
the common pigeon, of a blueifli grey colour, with 
an admixture of a reddifli brown near the rump and 
at the bottom of the neck ; the belly is white ; the 
breaft and throat are a fine vivid purple, except 
that the verge of each feather is yellow; and the 
fides of the neck are variegated with a fort of ring- 
let of beautiful white feathers having black bafes. 
The tail is about three inches and a half long, the 
£Wo middlemoft feathers being duflcy brown, and 
the others black with white tips; and the extremi- 
ties and outer webs of the exterior feathers are 
wholly white. The irides are a fine yellow; and a 
beautiful crimfon circle encompafles the eye-lids. 
The chin and forehead are whitifti ; and on each 
fide of the neck there is a fpot of black feathers 
prettily tipped with white. 
This bird weighs about four ounces. It feeds on 
hempfeed, and other vegetable fubftances ; and, be- 
ing remarkably fhy, breeds in the moft retired fitua- 
tions. It is faithfully attached to it's mate, even to a 
proverb; and, if vv'e may credit the opinion of the 
vulgar, when either of them pays the debt of nature, 
the furvivor lives in a ftate of foiitude ever after. 
Dove, Turtle, Indian, of Aldrovandus. 
The female of tliis fpecies is entirely white, except 
the feet, which are red; and the bill, which is 
black : and the male is wholly of a light red co- 
lour, and of the fize of the common pigeon. The 
irides are of a reddifh faffron hue; and a narrow 
black ring furrounds the neck. 
Dove, Turtle, Indian, of Hernandez. 
This fpecies is fomewhat bigger than the fparrow. 
The upper part of the body is brown, except that 
the feathers are edged with black; the fore-parts 
of the wings are partly black, and the others of a 
duflcy colour; the end of the tail is tinged with 
white and brown promifcuoufly; and the feathers 
which cover the lower part of the body are white, 
terminating in black lines. The head is fmall; 
the bill is black ; and the legs and feet are whitifli, 
Thefe birds, which frequent mountainous fitua- 
tions, ufually grow veiy fat, and are efteemed de- 
licious food, 
Dove, Turtle, of Barbadoes. This bird is 
about the fize of the lark; and, from it's refem- 
blance to the Indian Turtle-Dove of Hernandez^ 
is by many naturalifts fuppofed to be the fame. 
The irides are of a golden hue; and all the feathers 
on the upper part of the body are of a darkifti afli- 
colour, with lunared blackifli edges. The prime- 
feathers of the wings appear reddiflr when the bird 
is in the aft of flying; the tail is a dufl^y aflh; 
the feai;hers on the belly are white, with dufl<;y 
edges, in die Vciom- of a crefcent; and the feet are 
white. 
Dove, Green-WiNOed. This fpecies, which 
is a native of the Eaft Indies, is one of the moft 
beautiful of the Dove kind. The bill, which is 
nearly an inch in length, is of a fcarlet colour 
from the point to the noftrils, and of a pale blue 
from the noftrils to the head. The eyes are darkifti ; 
and from the forehead, which is white, proceed two 
lines of the fame colour above the eyes towards the 
hinder part of the head. The crown of the head 
is blueifli; the fides of the head, the neck, and the 
breaft, are rofaceous ; tlie belly is of a dirty orange 
hue, which infenfibly blends itlelf with the rofe co- 
lour of the breaft; the upper fides of the wings, 
when viewed in certain lights, difplay a beautiful 
gree?j, and in others afllime the tinge of bright 
copper or gold; the larger quills are a dirty blaci<; 
the fhoulder or ridge of the wing is marked with 
fmall white fpots; the fides under the wings are of 
the fame colour with the belly; the covert-feathers 
are a dark cinnamon; the interior webs of the quills 
are in fome parts tinged with a common cinna- 
mon ; but, in others, with a duflcy black. The 
middle of the back is a dirty brown; the lower 
part of the back, and the feathers which cover the 
tail, are cinereous; the middle feathers of the tail 
are black, and the outer ones cinereous, with black 
tips; the legs and feet are reddifii; and the claws 
are a light brown. 
Dove, Long-Tailed. The head of this bird 
is fmall in proportion to the body; the neck is of 
a moderate length; the body is pretty long; the 
tail is longer than the whole body; the wings are 
of a middling length ; the bill is a little incurvated 
at the point, of a light horn colour about the nof- 
trils, and darker towards the point; the irides are 
dark ; and a v/hite line runs from the corner' of the: 
bill to the eye, which it encircles. The fore- part 
of the head, both above and beneath the bill, is 
yellowifh, the hinder part being a light pigeon 
blue; which colours lofe themfelves in each other 
when united. There is a pretty large black fpot 
exactly under the ear-holes > the fore-part of the 
neck and breaft are of a bloflfom-colour, changing 
gradually towards the belly into a clay; the lower 
part of the belly, the thighs, and the coverts under 
the tail, are a dull yellov/ with an admixture of ci- 
nereous ; the fuperior part of the neck, the back, 
and the upper lides of the wings, are a dark, dirty 
brown ; the fcapular feathers between the back and 
wings, as well as fome of the quills and coverts 
next the back, are marked at their ends with oval 
black fpots of difl"crent mag/iitudes, in number 
about ten or twelve on each fide. The rump, and 
the feathers which cover the tail, incline more to 
an afli-colour than the back and wings ; the mid- 
dle feathers of the tail are black, and very long, 
the fide ones gradually diminifliing in length; fo 
that the exterior feathers on each fide are not above 
half as long as the middlemoft, but are of a blueifli 
afli-colour, having bars of black near their tips : 
the tips theiTifelves are white; the legs and feet. 
