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COLLARED TURTLE 
Turtitr risorius. 
PLATE XVII. 
Columba risoria, Auct — Tnrtur torquatua Senegalensis, 
Briss. 1. p. 124. t. 11. f. 1. — Colombe blondp, Temm. Pig, 
1. p. 323 — ^Tnurterelle a collier, Buff. PI. Enl. No. 244 
Boltard ei Corbie. Monog. des. Pigeons, p. 236. pi. 2,5. 
From a very remote period this species appears 
to have been domesticated, or rather kept in that 
state of captivity in which it is retained at the pre- 
sent day; for there is every reason to suppose that 
the turtle dove adverted to in Holy Writ may be re- 
ferred to the same bird, as it is still abundant in 
Egypt and other parts of the East, where it is fos- 
tered and cultivated with care, and it is certain that 
many of the representations in the works of ancient 
ai-t, where the dove figures as the emblem of tender- 
ness and affection, or where it is depicted as the ap- 
propriate attendant of Venus, are accurate delinea- 
tions of the Collared or domestic Turtle. 
This bird does not appear to be susceptible of 
that attachment to its home or place of birth, for 
which the common or Dove-cot Pigeon is remark- 
