. British birds' nests; how, where, and when to find and identify them . neck dark bluish-grey,glossed with a purply-red and green sheen on thelatter; back and wing-coverts light pearl-grey;greater coverts and secondaries marked with blackbars ; quills bluish-grey, darkest towards the tips;rump white ; tail-coverts bluish-grey; quills bluish-grey, with a darker bar at the tips; chin darkbluish-grey ; throat and upper part of breast glossedwith green, lavender, purple, and purplish-red;lower breast and all under parts grey. Legs andtoes purplish-red; claws brown. The female is somewhat smaller,
. British birds' nests; how, where, and when to find and identify them . neck dark bluish-grey,glossed with a purply-red and green sheen on thelatter; back and wing-coverts light pearl-grey;greater coverts and secondaries marked with blackbars ; quills bluish-grey, darkest towards the tips;rump white ; tail-coverts bluish-grey; quills bluish-grey, with a darker bar at the tips; chin darkbluish-grey ; throat and upper part of breast glossedwith green, lavender, purple, and purplish-red;lower breast and all under parts grey. Legs andtoes purplish-red; claws brown. The female is somewhat smaller, and not sobrilliant and distinctive in her coloration. Sifiiatio?! and. Locality.—Ledges and clefts ofmaritime and inland cliffs, generally the former,round the coasts of England, Wales, Scotland, andIreland, wherever suitable accommodation is to bemet with. Our illustration represents a cave inNorth Uist where numbers of these birds andshags were breeding together. Materials.—A small collection of twigs, sticks,seaweed, and bents, roughly constructed, and CAVE IN WHICH NUMBERS OF ROCK DOVES AND SHAGWERE BREEDING. 60 BIIITISH BinnS NESTS. Eggs.—Two, white, unspotted and sniootli. Sizeabout 1-45 by l-lr5 in Time.—March, April, ]\IaY, and June, althougheggs have been found in nearly every other monthof the year. BemarJis—Eesident. Notes, coo-roo-coo, lastsyllable prolonged. Local and other names: Eockier,Wild Pigeon, Eock Pigeon, Wild Dove, Doo. Afairly close sitter, and distinguislied from the StockDove by its white rump. DOVE, STOCK. Descripfuni of Pnre)it Birds.—Length aboutthirteen and a half inches. Bill of medium length,nearly straight, and pale red, whitish at the brown. Head, neck and upper parts ofback deep bluish-grey, glossed on the sides of theneck with green and purplish-red. Wing-covertsbluish-grey, spotted and marked with black on thegreater ones; quills brownish-grey, turning bluertowards the tips. Eunip and upper tail-covertspale bl
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