The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 605
ted in almost any tree. species, until we get to the northern and western sea-cliffs, andtill then we shall defer our notice of it. The pretty little Turtle-dove (Turtur auritus) has long beenknown as a regular summer visitor to our southern and centralcounties, but within the last twenty years its… … TURTLE DOVES. The Stock-dove (C. anas) is really so called frqm its customof breeding in stocks or stubbs, otherwise hollow trees andpollards, and not because it is the original stock of our domesticbreed, which owes its existence to the blue rock-pigeon. The stock-dove may easily be recognised by…
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