ringdove

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Their coo is not in any sense tuneful; yet it has a pleasant association; for the ringdove is pre-eminently the bird of the woods and forests, and rightly named the wood-pigeon.

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  1. noun An Old World pigeon (Streptopelia risoria) having black markings forming a half circle on the neck.
  2. noun See wood pigeon.

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  • For only speech more richly dubious Than shoaling water, or a ringdove's breast, Than lighted incense more miraculous With fumes of strange remembrance, could attest The morbid beauty of that wasting ill Whereof I am the cureless lover still LIX RESERVATIONS Though cold clear cruelties like diamond Burthen this silken text of dim surmise, Surely thou knowest I am pity's bond If one but look at me with stricken eyes. —  The Hours of Fiammetta A Sonnet Sequence
  • The bush resounds with the shriek of the parrot and the cooing of the ringdove, which reminds me of the Ku-ku-ku (Where, oh, where?) —  To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative
  • Their coo is not in any sense tuneful; yet it has a pleasant association; for the ringdove is pre-eminently the bird of the woods and forests, and rightly named the wood-pigeon. —  Nature Near London
  • In the wild state it is still found in many parts of this island making its nest in the holes of rocks, in the hollows of trees or in old towers, but never, like the ringdove, on branches. —  The Book of Household Management
  • The stockdove, in its wild state, is still found in some parts of Britain, forming its nest in the holes of rocks, old towers, and in the hollows of trees; it never however, like the ringdove, nestles in the branches. —  The Book of Household Management
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