. A history of British birds . omewhat duller. Young birds are fully fledged by the end of the thirdweek, and are then of a lead-grey, with a very conspicuouswing-har, on the upper parts; the hreast heing vinous-brown, with numerous yellowish filaments still adhering tothe tips of the feathers. The bill, which is tumid and quiteout of proportion to the size of the bird, is even moreflattened out, and more distinctly notched on the edges ofthe under mandible, than in most domestic Pigeons. Thecolour of both bill and feet at this time is a livid grey:the former with a white tip crossed by a narr
. A history of British birds . omewhat duller. Young birds are fully fledged by the end of the thirdweek, and are then of a lead-grey, with a very conspicuouswing-har, on the upper parts; the hreast heing vinous-brown, with numerous yellowish filaments still adhering tothe tips of the feathers. The bill, which is tumid and quiteout of proportion to the size of the bird, is even moreflattened out, and more distinctly notched on the edges ofthe under mandible, than in most domestic Pigeons. Thecolour of both bill and feet at this time is a livid grey:the former with a white tip crossed by a narrow black their first moult they have no white on the sides ofthe neck, and the general colour of the plumage is less pureand glossy, hut they assume the adult plumage the firstyear. Varieties more or less spotted over the body withwhite, and even perfect albinos, are sometimes met with : aremarkable example of the latter is in the collection of Marshall, of Belmont, Taunton. 8 COLUMBJi. COLUMBTDiE. CoLUMBA osNAs, Linnseus *. THE STOCK DOVE. Columha cenas. By Montagu, Bewick, Fleming, and some of the earlierauthors, the Stock Dove was confounded with the Rock Dove,from which, however, it is now well known to he perfectlydistinct. Whilst this confusion lasted, the name was sup-posed to he owing to its heing considered to he the origin ofour domestic stock; hut the appellation is now generallyattributed to its habit of nesting in the stocks of trees, par- * Columha mnas, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. Ed. 12 (1766), i. p. 279, in part, thedescription being somewhat confused with that of the Domestic Pigeon, althoughin the Fauna Suecica, p. 75 (1761), the author had accurately described thepresent species. As the name has been long and almost universally applied tothis bird, there seems to be no adequate reason for rejecting it. (Enas fromolvos, finmn. STOCK DOVE. 9 ticularly such as have been headed down, and have becomerugged and bushy at the top. Its German n
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