Usage examples (29)

• So they entered and found all manner fruits in view and birds of every kind and hue, such as ringdove, nightingale and curlew; and the turtle and the cushat sang their...
• It was very like the hawk perched over and clawing the ringdove she has struck down.
• Birds of the pigeon kind, such as the ringdove and the turtle-dove, lay two eggs at a time; that is to say, they do so as
• M.B.O.U., one of our greatest authorities, says that its note is lower and more of a querulous murmur than that of the ringdove.