O p H E bill in this genus is weak, (lender, ftrait at the bafe,
A with a foft protuberance, in which the noftrils are
lodged.
Tongue entire.
Legs fhort, and red for the moft part: toes divided to the origin.
General manners well known; fcarcely diffimilar to thofe remarked
under the head of Bifet.
Columba snas, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 279* ^aun. Sure. 207. Frifch• t.
4- STOCK P. igp,— Gaorgi Rei/e, p. 173.
r.e Pigeon, fauvage, Brif. orn. i. p. 86. N° 5.
Oenas, live Vinago, Stock Dove, Raii Syn. p. 62. A. 10.— Will, orn. p.
185. pl. 35.—Albin. ii. pl. 46.—Br. Zool. v. 2. App.— Aril. Zool.
Li'-V. Muf.
D escription. T E N G T H fourteen inches. The bill palè red t head afh-
coloured : hind part of the neck, and fides, green gold,
o-lofled with copper in different lights: the upper part of the
back and wings dull afh-colour: the lower part of the back,
rump, and upper tail coverts, lighter afh-colour: fore part of the
neck afh-colour ; the lower part of it, and the breaft, vinaceous:
belly, thighs, and under tail coverts, pale afh-colour : the four
or five outer quills are black, with the exterior edges white ; the
reft afh-colour, with the ends black: on each wing are two tranf-
verfe bars of black : the tail is afh-colour, with one-third of the
end black ; two of the outer tail feathers white from, the bafe
to the middle on the outer edge: the legs are red: thé claws
black.
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Columba cenas, Lin. Syft.i. p. 279. 1 .— Faun. Suec. N° zoy.— Scof. am .i.
N° 177.
Le Pigeon domeftique, BriJ.\ orn. i. p. 68. i.
Common Pigeon, RaiiSyn. p. 59. A. 1. 183. z i .— Will. orn. p. 180.— Sloan.
Jam. p. 302.--.Bnmv». Jam. p. 468— Albin. iii. pl. 42. 44.— Br.
Zool. N° 101. pl. 45..
Lev. Muf,
^ jpH I S is fbmewhat lefs than the former, and feems to differ
chiefly in having the lower part of the back white.
Le Bifet, Brif. orn. i . p. 82. 3.— Buf. oif. ii. p. 498— P/. c„/. JIa.
- Columba Livia, RaiiSyn. p. 62. 8 — Will. orn. p. 186.
Stock Dove, Albin. iii. pl. 44,
^J^HI S is the fize ofothe laft, and has alfo the lower part of
the back white: it has two black bands acrofs the wings ;
and one of the outer tail feathers white on the outer web. I can
efteem it but a very trifling variety of the laft-deferibed, perhaps
the identical bird.
m id Pigeons migrate in quantities into England, at the approach
of winter, from the more northern regions, and return in
fpnng ; not but many remain among the rocks, ruined edifices, and
mountains, in the more northern parts, the whole year, where
they breed; though others frequent the woody parts, building
in the holes of decayed trees: hence they have been called
by the different names of Rock Pigeon, Stock Dove, Wood Pigeon,
Stc. The firft remove of the Pigeon from its wild ftate is to that
of the Dove-bou/e; where finding every convenience for building
their neft at hand, added to their procuring food on much
9 ” eafier
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