Clafs II.] B 
in the manners, characters, arid colors of birds 
reclamed from their wild Hate. This fpecies of 
pigeon foon takes to build iri artificial cavities^ 
and from the temptation of a ready provifion be¬ 
come eafily domefticated. The drakes of the 
tame duck, however they may vary in color, ever 
retain the mark of their origin from our Englijh 
mallard, by the two curled feathers of the tail: 
and the tame goofe betrays its defcent from the 
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Wild kind, by the invariable wKitenefs of its rump, 
which they always retairi in both ftates. 
The nature of pigeons is to be gregarious $ td 
lay only two eggs 5 to breed many times in the 
year * 5 to bill iri their cdurtlhip; for the male 
and female to fit by turns, and alfo to feed their 
young ; to call their provifion out of their craw 
into the young ones mouths 5 and to have a note 
mournful, or plaintive* 
* So quick is their produce, that the Author of the Oeeonomy of nature 
obferves, that in the fpace of four years, 14,760 may come from a fingle 
pair. Siillingjleet’s trails. 75. 
SPECIES II. The Ring-dove. Plate O. 
Ring - dove, Queeft, or Culhat. 
IViL orn . 185* 
Raii fyn. av. 62. 
T HIS fpecies forms its ncft of a few 
dry Hicks in the boughs of trees: at¬ 
tempts have been made to domefticate 
them, by hatching their eggs under the common 
pigeon in dove-houfes ; but as foon as they could 
fly, they always toke to their proper haunts. In 
the beginning of the winter they aflemble in great 
SPECIES III. The 
The Turtle-dove. IVil orn. 183.? 
Rail fyn. av. 61.? 
Columba area oculorum nuda coc- 
H I S fpecies is found in Buckingham - 
1 ] Jhire, Glouceflerfhire, Shropfhire and in 
the Weft of England. They are Ihy 
and retired birds, breeding in thick woods, ge¬ 
nerally of oak: we believe that they refide in 
Buckinghamjhire during the breeding feafon, mi¬ 
grating into the other countries in autumn. The 
bird we defcribe was (hot at Pitchford y Shropjhire , 
by a gentleman in that neighborhood, to whom 
this work is under infinite obligations, for fome 
excellent obfervations; and feveral elegant pro¬ 
ductions of his pencil Thefe birds differ in 
Rrifjbn av. I. 89. 
blumba palumbus„ Lin. Jyft. 163. 
lumbus. Gefner av. 31 o. 
ocks, and leave off cooing; which they begin in 
March , when they pair. The ring-dove is the 
largeft pigeon we have; and may be at once di- 
ftinguifhed from all others, as well by the fize, as 
the white mark on the hind part of the neck. Its 
weight is about twenty ounces : its length eight- 
teen inches : its breadth thirty. 
Turtle. Plate O i. 
cinea laevi, collo poftice femicir- 
culo nigro. Kramer Elench. 359. 
fize, this weighing only three ounces and a half; 
another that was killed in Gloucefterjhire weighed 
fix. The length of that figured, was ten inches 
and a half, its breadth eighteen. The irides were 
of a fine yellow: a beautiful crimfon circle encom- 
paffed the eyelids. The chin and forehead were 
whitilh : the top of the head alh-colored mixed 
with olive : the back alh-colored, bordered with 
olive brown : the fcapulars and coverts chefnut 
colored, fpotted with black: the quil feathers 
were of a duiky brown, the tips and outward edges 
of a yellowifh brown : the breafi: was of a light 
y purplifh 
* All this Gentleman’s defigns are marked thus 
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