rock-dove

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"Who am I that I should question your wisdom?" and, turning his horse's head, he rode forward across the gloomy veldt as certainly as a homing rock-dove wings its flight.

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  1. The rock-pigeon or blue-rock, Columba livia: in distinction from the other two British pigeons of the same genus, the ring-dove (C. palumbus) and the stockdove (C. ænas). It is widely distributed through-out the western part of the Palearctic region, and is the reputed wild stock or original of the domestic pigeon. The commonest varieties of the latter retain close resemblance to the wild bird, as may be seen by comparing the figure here given with that under pigeon.
  2. The sea-dove, sea-pigeon, or black guillemot, Uria grylle: so called because it breeds in the rocks. [Ireland.]

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  • The nations of the rock-dove breed therein. —  Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II.
  • Whose murmuring voice was soft as rock-dove's note, —  Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II.
  • "Who am I that I should question your wisdom?" and, turning his horse's head, he rode forward across the gloomy veldt as certainly as a homing rock-dove wings its flight. —  Swallow: a tale of the great trek
  • That by which it is referred to in the foregoing notes is not, perhaps, the most satisfactory, since, with the possible exception of the smaller stock-dove, which lays its eggs in rabbit burrows, and the rock-dove, which nests in the cliffs, all the members of the family need trees, if only to roost and nest in. —  Birds in the Calendar
  • The last-named, however, which will be familiar to readers of Tennyson, probably alludes specifically to the rock-dove, as it undoubtedly gave its name to Culver Cliff, a prominent landmark in the Isle of Wight, where these birds have at all times been sparingly in evidence. —  Birds in the Calendar
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