rock-pigeons

Flocks of rock-pigeons and sea - swallows, similar to those of Lincoln Island, fluttered around them.

The Mysterious Island 2005

Flocks of rock-pigeons and sea - swallows, similar to those of Lincoln Island, fluttered around them.

The Mysterious Island 2005

They shouted until the echoes startled flocks of rock-pigeons from the cliffs beyond the walls.

Warlock Smith, Wilbur 2001

But Belle was the slave of Margaret since the days when Hugh and Bryde and the little wild lass would be playing in the heather, and climbing for jackdaw's eggs or young rock-pigeons in Dun Dubh.

The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars

If a rock-pigeon were left to itself, it would produce only rock-pigeons, unless some new influences were brought to bear by natural causes.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 Various

The market of Sidi B'noor is famous for its sales of slaves and horses, [15] but I remember it best by its swarm of blue rock-pigeons and sparrow-hawks, that seemed to live side by side in the walls surrounding the saint's white tomb.

Morocco S.L. Bensusan

On the mountain range which lies close to Mardan markhor are to be found, and some good heads have been shot; while in the lower slopes good bags of chikore, black and grey partridge, and rock-pigeons may be obtained.

The Story of the Guides G. J. Younghusband

Alisma abundant in swamps: small partridges: no chakor: hares, swifts, rock-pigeons.

Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

In a light, scoffing tone, florid and fluent, he assured us there was nothing in the idea of evolution; rock-pigeons were what rock-pigeons had always been.

Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard, 1860-1933 1920

Here and there a pair of blue rock-pigeons (_Colombia intermedia_) is busy with eggs or young ones.

A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916