. British birds in their haunts. Birds. /I r> â J â :/l r,. THE STOCK DOVE. COLUMBA CEXAS. Head, throat, wings, and lower jiarts, bluish grey; the lower parts of the neck with metallic reflections, no white spots; breast wine-red ; a black spot on the two last secondaries and some of the wing-coverts ; primaries grey at the base, passing into dusky ; tail grey, barred with black at the extremity, the outer feather with a white spot on the outer web near the base ; irides red- dish brown; bill yellow, red at the base; feet red ; claws dusky. Length twelve and a half inches. Eggs white. The S
. British birds in their haunts. Birds. /I r> â J â :/l r,. THE STOCK DOVE. COLUMBA CEXAS. Head, throat, wings, and lower jiarts, bluish grey; the lower parts of the neck with metallic reflections, no white spots; breast wine-red ; a black spot on the two last secondaries and some of the wing-coverts ; primaries grey at the base, passing into dusky ; tail grey, barred with black at the extremity, the outer feather with a white spot on the outer web near the base ; irides red- dish brown; bill yellow, red at the base; feet red ; claws dusky. Length twelve and a half inches. Eggs white. The Stock Dove is by some j)ersons supposed to be so called from its having been believed at one time to be the origin of the domestic Pigeon; but as it bore the name before the above question was mooted, it is more reasonable to suppose that it derived its name from its habit of nest- ling in the stocks of trees, and not on the branches like the Ring Dove, nor in caves like the Rock Dove. Eay and Willughby, who treat the domestic Dove as a distinct species, gave it the name of CEnas (from the Greek oinos^ wine), and Vinago (from the Latin viniim), from the purpled I. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Johns, C. A. (Charles Alexander), 1811-1874. London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
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