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Ringdove   Listen
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Ringdove  n.  (Zool.) A European wild pigeon (Columba palumbus) having a white crescent on each side of the neck, whence the name. Called also wood pigeon, and cushat.






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"Ringdove" Quotes from Famous Books



... long glassy shallow, paved with yellow gravel, where he wades up between low walls of fern-fringed rock, beneath nut, and oak, and alder, to the low bar over which the stream comes swirling and dimpling, as the water-ouzel flits piping before him, and the murmur of the ringdove comes soft and sleepy through the wood. There, as he wades, he sees a hundred sights and hears a hundred tones, which are hidden from the traveller on the dusty highway above. The traveller fancies that he has seen the ...
— Prose Idylls • Charles Kingsley



Words linked to "Ringdove" :   Streptopelia risoria, wood pigeon, Columba, Columba palumbus, cushat



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