STOCK DOVE. 65 
dove. The young are frequently brought to the 
London, market, and are much esteemed. 
There appears to be authority for the occurrence 
of the Stock Dove in Sweden * as a summer 
visitant. The same also in Germany and France, 
and the eastern part of Spain, f Madeira, J North 
Africa, § Erzeroom. || 
Specimens procured from Kent, in spring, had 
the head, throat, and fore part of the neck, 
dark blueish-grey, on the crown approaching to 
blackish-grey ; the sides and back of the neck of 
a metallic lustre, changing from green to purple, 
the former being the prevailing shade. Back, 
blueish-grey. Wings on the shoulders, blueish- 
grey. The wing-covers pale, and marked with 
undecided dark nearly square spots, which form 
sometimes a partial bar. The greater covers are 
pale blueish-grey at the base, shading into deep 
blackish-brown at the tips. The quills blackish- 
brown, rump and upper tail-coverts blueish-grey. 
Tail at the base of the same colour, black at the 
tip, with an indistinct paler clouded bar about the 
centre, the outer web of exterior feathers white. 
The breast is reddish lavender purple, and the 
remaining under parts are pale blueish-grey. Feet 
and legs red. 
* Nilson. + Vieillot. J Yarrell. § Selby. || Dickson 
and Ross, Proceed, of Zool. Soc. 
