. A history of British birds / by the Rev. F. O. Morris . edwith greenish white, and tipped with greyish white; lesserwing coverts, also dusky, broadly bordered with greenishwhite; primaries, secondaries, and tertiaries, dusky, marginedwith yellowish green, the last-named most widely so, excepttowards the base, where their outer web is dusky black,forming a dark spot. Tail, dusky, margined with yellowishgreen; it is slightly forked, and extends three quarters of aainch beyond the closed wings. Legs and toes, yellowishbrown, the soles yellow and rough; claws, brown. The female Ima the crcsb iie
. A history of British birds / by the Rev. F. O. Morris . edwith greenish white, and tipped with greyish white; lesserwing coverts, also dusky, broadly bordered with greenishwhite; primaries, secondaries, and tertiaries, dusky, marginedwith yellowish green, the last-named most widely so, excepttowards the base, where their outer web is dusky black,forming a dark spot. Tail, dusky, margined with yellowishgreen; it is slightly forked, and extends three quarters of aainch beyond the closed wings. Legs and toes, yellowishbrown, the soles yellow and rough; claws, brown. The female Ima the crcsb iiery orange red, but somewhrt 152 riEECEEST. faded; the Lands on the sides of the head are less ohviousthan in the male, and the whole plumage jiot so bright. In the young the base of the bill is horn-colour; the crestis pale lemon yellow, and indistinct; the forehead and headon the sides are cinereous, without any streaks; the upperplumage duller than in the adult, the lower tinged withyellow. The figure is from a design bj the Eev. Richard 153 WOOD PIGEON. TiTSa DOVE. CUSHAT. QUEEST. Cohimha pilumhus, Pennant. Montagu. Culumha—k Pigeon. Falumhus—A Wood Pigeon. TiTTS hircl is a universal favourite, au emhlein, as it 13al vays consdeveil, of peace, innocence, and conjugr^l fidelity,*It was a Dove, ever since sacred to peace, says Booth, thatbroua:ht the ohve branch to the ark of Noah, for which shehas her place among constellations; and the christian worldstill personate the iiOLY Spihit under the mvstic emblem ofa D >ve. It is found in Europe as far north as the southern partsof Siberia and Russia, as in summer in Denmark an i S>veden;likewise so far sjuth as the latitude of Made ra, and in thenortliern part of the African contment, and in Asia. The Ring Djve occurs throughout the whole of Englandand Scotland, so far north as Tongue in Sutherlandshire,and has been several times in the Orkneys. It hasbe^n killed in Sandny—one was shot in Oruhir in
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