. . QUAIL, GROUSE, ETC. 176 The love song has a pathetic tone which gives the namemourning. Orchards, groves, and roadsides grown upwith shrubbery are favorite nesting sites. The young arefed after the manner of the albatross, petrels, and humming-birds, as the predigested matter is introduced into the cropof the young by regurgitation. Two white eggs are deposited in a loosely constructednest of sticks, near the ground in the East, sometimes onthe ground in the West. RING-NECKED DOVE* The popular names for this favorite bird are tui
. . QUAIL, GROUSE, ETC. 176 The love song has a pathetic tone which gives the namemourning. Orchards, groves, and roadsides grown upwith shrubbery are favorite nesting sites. The young arefed after the manner of the albatross, petrels, and humming-birds, as the predigested matter is introduced into the cropof the young by regurgitation. Two white eggs are deposited in a loosely constructednest of sticks, near the ground in the East, sometimes onthe ground in the West. RING-NECKED DOVE* The popular names for this favorite bird are tuitle dove,common dove, and Carolina dove. It is an inhabitant of allof temperate North America to a little north of the UnitedStates boundary, south through Mexico and Central Amer-ica to the Isthmus of Panama, Cuba, Jamaica, and someother West Indian islands. The species have even beenknown to winter as far north as Canada, JNIr. John J. JNIor-ley, of Windsor, Ontario, informing Prof. Baird that hehad seen considerable numbers near that place on the 6thof Dece
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