. The natural history of British birds, or, A selection of the most rare, beautiful and interesting birds which inhabit this country : the descriptions from the Systema naturae of Linnaeus : with general observations, either original or collected from the latest and most esteemed English ornithologists : and embellished with figures, drawn, engraved, and coloured from the original specimens . PLATE CXXV. COLUMBA DOVE. Passeres. GENERIC CHARACTER. Bill ftraight, defcending towards the tip : nollrils oblong, and halfcovered with a foft tumid membrane. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND SYNONYM
. The natural history of British birds, or, A selection of the most rare, beautiful and interesting birds which inhabit this country : the descriptions from the Systema naturae of Linnaeus : with general observations, either original or collected from the latest and most esteemed English ornithologists : and embellished with figures, drawn, engraved, and coloured from the original specimens . PLATE CXXV. COLUMBA DOVE. Passeres. GENERIC CHARACTER. Bill ftraight, defcending towards the tip : nollrils oblong, and halfcovered with a foft tumid membrane. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND SYNONYMS, Tail feathers tipped with white : back grey : breaft flefh colour %each fide the neck a fpot of black feathers with white tips. CoLUMBA TuRTUR : reftiicibus apice albls, dorfo grifeo, pe£lore incarnato, macula lateral! colli nigra lineolis albis. Scop. Ann. \.n. OUn. ucc. St.—Brijf. av. 1. p, 92, n, 7.—Norzem. nederL Vogel. /. 6,Tourterelle. Buf Hifi. Oif. 5U. /. ^6.—PL Enl. «. , or Turtle-dove. Brit. ZooL 1. «, 10^ /. ^^Alhln. av. J2. /. 47. A 2 The PLATE CXXV. Turtle Doves inhabit Europe, and fome parts of Afia, being metwith in China, and India. In Britain they are not uncommonduring the fummer feafon, arriving however later in the fpring, andleaving the country earlier in autumn than any other of the pigeontribe. The conflancy of the Turtlnaturalhistoryof61816dono
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