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TURTLE DOVE. 
Columba Turtur. ~ Linnzus. LAtraam. 
Turtur auritus, Ray. 
Columba—A Pigeon. Turtur—The Turtle Dove. 
Tas beautiful bird is an inhabitant of Africa, from whence 
it crosses to Europe, and is met with in Germany, Italy, and 
other countries of the continent. It has been noticed also 
in Asia—in Asia Minor, the East Indies, J apan, China, and 
the islands of the South Seas. 
The Turtle Dove breeds in Bagley wood, Berkshire, near 
Oxford, as James Dalton, Esq., of Worcester College, has 
informed me. In Yorkshire one was obtained some years 
since near Halifax, and one also in 1824, ‘near fair Rother- 
ham,’ not so fair in these times of smoke, as in the days of 
yore, those of the ‘Dragon of Wantley;’ another was shot 
at High Catton, near York, one seen by Arthur Strickland, 
Esq., near Burlington, and one taken near Scarborough. It 
is the most plentiful in the ‘Eastern Counties. In Cam- 
bridgeshire, a few individuals of this species visit the plantations 
in the neighbourhood of Bottisham, every spring, and it has 
also been noticed at Stretchwood and Wood-Ditton. In 
Norfolk, it is pretty common in the summer; as also in 
Kssex and Suffolk. In Kent, where it is the most plentiful, 
I have seen it in the neighbourhood of Sittingbourne. A 
few occur in Dorsetshire, Devonshire, and Cornwall; and one 
has also been observed in Northumberland, in the autumn— 
namely, on Prestwick Car, in September, 1794, as recorded 
by Bewick. Thomas Eyton, Esq., of Eyton, says that it is 
found in Shropshire ‘All round the Wrekin.’ “I¢ has also 
been observed in Lancashire, and even in Cumberland. 
In Scotland, Charles St. John, Esq. has twice seen a pair 
in Morayshire, in the autumn. Sir William J ardine, Bart. 
