. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . er.^ The eggs are similar to those of the E-ock Dove. One inmy possession, presented to me by Mr. Greenhow, and fromthe above locality, is of a rather elongated elliptical form, aninch and seven twelfths long, one and one twelfth across, andof a pure white colour. Remarks.—This species is easily distinguished by the pur-plish-red colour of the
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . er.^ The eggs are similar to those of the E-ock Dove. One inmy possession, presented to me by Mr. Greenhow, and fromthe above locality, is of a rather elongated elliptical form, aninch and seven twelfths long, one and one twelfth across, andof a pure white colour. Remarks.—This species is easily distinguished by the pur-plish-red colour of the lower part of its neck, from blue-rum23edindividuals of the domestic pigeon, with which it was alwaysconfounded until M. Temminck separated the tw^o name of Stock Dove was given to the present species be-cause it was conceived to be the original of our domestic pigeons;but as these are now universally admitted to be the descendantsof the Rock Dove, Columba Livia, it is manifestly absurd toretain a name founded on an erroneous supposition. The RockDove in fact is the real Stock Dove. To prevent misap-prehension, I have therefore altered the vernacular name ofColumba CEnas. 291 COLUMBA TURTUR. TURTLE DOVE. TURTLE. RING-NECKED Fig. 54. Columba Turtur. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 284. Columba Turtur. Lath. Ind. Orn. II. 605. Turtle Dove. Mont. Orn. Diet. Colombe Tourterelle. Columba Turtur. Temm. Man. dOrn. II. 448. Turtle Dove. Columba Turtur. Selb. Illustr. I. 413. Columba Turtur. Turtle Dove. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 162. Male with the head light hluish-grey^ the hack greyish-brown^the scapulars and small wing-coterts black imth broad light redmargins^ the breast pale greyish-purple^ the neck with two largeblack spots barred with white^ the quills and tail greyish-brown^the latter tipped with white. Female similar^ but with the tintsduller. The Turtle Dove is not only the smallest of our British species,but also the most elegantly formed, and that whose plumageexhibit
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