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In the pines on the margin of the river the blue ringdoves were busy constructing the rude makeshift that was to serve the purpose of a nest.

From Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain by Rees, Alfred Wellesley

More distant, a small wood of filbert trees served as a retreat to the ringdoves who cooed, and the nightingales who chanted the spring.

From Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770. by Maxwell, Patrick

Of birds of passage, dormice, snakes, bats, swallows, quails, ringdoves, stare, chaffinch, hoopoe, chatterer, hawfinch, crossbill, rails and cranes.

From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

The noonday chime had ceased—she did not know   Who watched her, while her ringdoves fluttered near: While, under the green boughs, in accents low   She sang unto herself.

From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. by Ingelow, Jean

Sauntering along on the new-fallen beechmast, struck by the gleams of a sunset that seemed to be giving satisfaction to the ringdoves overhead, it could not be necessary to prosecute the conversation.

From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend