BRITISH BIRDS. 2 6 j 
THE WILD PIGEON. 
STOCK DOVE. 
( Columba cenas, Lin . — Le Bifety Buff.) 
Length fourteen inches : Bill pale red ; the 
head, neck, and upper part of the back are of a 
deep blue gray colour, refle&ed on the fides of the 
neck with gloffy green and gold ; the breaft is of a 
pale readifh purple, or vinous colour; the lower 
part of the back and rump light gray or alh colour, 
as are alfo the belly, thighs, and under tail co- 
verts ; the primary quill feathers are dulky, edged 
with white, the others gray, marked with two 
black fpots on the exterior webs, forming two bars 
acrofs each wing $ the tail is alh colour and black 
