turtle-dove

Response: This is a dusky turtle-dove, Streptopelia lugens.

Mystery bird: dusky turtle dove, Streptopelia lugens 2010

Two endemic subspecies of note are the black parrot (Coracopsis nigra barklyi) and Seychelles turtle-dove (Streptopelia picturata rostrata).

Granitic Seychelles forests 2008

And the turtle-dove reneweth all as oft as moaneth she:

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

But it seemed as though distance had loosened them; I wearied of life, like a turtle-dove widowed of her mate.

Letters of Two Brides 2007

It would be simply impossible to meet up with a more valuable fellow: he'd make you a fish out of a sow's coynte, if that's what you wanted, a pigeon out of her lard, a turtle-dove out of her ham, and a hen out of a knuckle of pork: that's why I named him Daedalus, in a happy moment.

Satyricon 2007

I suspeck that the COCK turtle-dove was preshos sick of his barging.

The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush 2006

Bonstrops, who had, it seems, a room to hire, once the occasional residence of Slicing Dick of Paddington, who lately suffered at Tyburn, and whose untimely exit had been hitherto mourned by the damsel in solitary widowhood, after the fashion of the turtle-dove.

The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

White as a turtle-dove, with pink toes, darker in eyes and hair than he would be presently, he grabbed at the soap, at his mother, at the bath-towelling — he seemed only to need a tail.

The Silver Spoon 2004

Very smoothly he would go, and as gentle as a turtle-dove; until his rider fully believed that a pack-thread was enough for him, and

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

She had no idea that the erratic manoeuvres of such a beast might be milder and more innocent than the wooing of any turtle-dove.

He Knew He Was Right 2004