. A history of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . 272 BRITISH THE RING DOVE. CUSHAT, OR QUEEST.* ■ {^Cohimlapalumbusj Lin.—Le Plgecn ramler, BufF.) This is tlie largest of all the pigeon tribe, and mea-sures above seventeen inches in length. The bill is of apale red colour; the nostrils are covered with a mealyred fleshy membrane : the eyes are pale yellow; the up-per parts of the body are of a bluish ash colour, deepeston the upper part of the back, the lower part of which,the rump, and fore part of the neck and the head, are ofa pale ash colour; the lower part of the neck
. A history of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . 272 BRITISH THE RING DOVE. CUSHAT, OR QUEEST.* ■ {^Cohimlapalumbusj Lin.—Le Plgecn ramler, BufF.) This is tlie largest of all the pigeon tribe, and mea-sures above seventeen inches in length. The bill is of apale red colour; the nostrils are covered with a mealyred fleshy membrane : the eyes are pale yellow; the up-per parts of the body are of a bluish ash colour, deepeston the upper part of the back, the lower part of which,the rump, and fore part of the neck and the head, are ofa pale ash colour; the lower part of the neck and breastare of a vinous ash colour ; the belly, thighs, and ventare of a dull white ; on the hinder part of the neck thereis a semicircular line of white (whence its name) aboveand beneath which, the feathers are glossy, and of achangeable hue in different lights ; the greater quills aredusky, and all of them excepting the outermost, edgedwith white 5 from the point of the wing a white line ex- BRITISH BIRDS. 27S tends downwards, passing above the bastard wing; thetail
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