it can be mistaken for a ground-dove, and the dark bill along with black on the underwing coverts could lead the unwary to identify such a bird as a ruddy ground-dove. The scaling of the ...

Flocks of these doves, with large white wing patches ... while the western birds are more solitary; bears 2 white eggs. Migration: primarily a summer resident in the United States, with most ...

William Earl Dodge Scott and John Wyley Atkins must have had some interesting correspondence, as evidenced by a letter Atkins ...

It is believed that this species once constituted 25 to 40 per cent of the total bird population of the United States ... and the breast was a pale cinnamon-rose color. The mourning dove, Zenaidura ...