TURTLE DOVE, 
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RASORES 
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TURTLE DOYE. 
COLUMBA TURTUR. 
PLATE LXVIL FIG. IV. 
Like the stock clove, this species breeds only towards 
the south of England; being scarcely ever met with in 
the north, and then only in winter. I have seen it in 
the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, and Surrey, during the 
breeding season. It builds its nest in the same manner 
as the ring dove, in woods and plantations, but frequently 
in a less elevated position, and sometimes in a thorn- 
hedge: it is of sticks placed crosswise, and forming a 
very loosely-constructed platform; upon this it lays its 
two white eggs, which are more pointed than those of the 
other species. 
