ring-doves

From somewhere deeper in the heart of the wood came the droning of ring-doves.

Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

From somewhere deeper in the heart of the wood came the droning of ring-doves.

Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

More salacious than the sparrow in spring, or the snow-white ring-doves.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

He had (saith Lampridius) tame pheasants, ducks, partridges, peacocks, and some 20,000 ring-doves and pigeons.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

For fierce eagles do not procreate timid ring-doves.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

The birds were swift-winged hawks and owls, pigeons and ring-doves; crows again became common, and the water-wagtail was tame as the Brazilian thrush, João de Barros: it hopped about within a few feet of us, quite ignoring the presence of Frenchmen armed with murderous guns.

The Land of Midian 2003

The other birds were ring-doves, turtles, and the little “butcher” impaling, gaily as a

The Land of Midian 2003

The young of some birds also are hatched imperfect, that is to say blind; this applies to all small birds which lay many eggs, as crows and rooks, jays, sparrows, swallows, and to all those which lay few eggs without producing abundant nourishment along with the young, as ring-doves, turtle-doves, and pigeons.

On the Generation of Animals 2002

She had dozens of birds of all gay colors, -- paroquets from Brazil, cockatoos, ring-doves, and canaries; fresh flowers, in vases on the mantel-pieces, and a blue-ribboned guitar in the corner.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 Various

In other respects, also, she is an engaging child -- loving, natural, and wild as any one of her neighbours for some miles round; viz. leverets, squirrels and ring-doves.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Various