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Rock pigeon   /rɑk pˈɪdʒən/   Listen
Rock pigeon

noun
1.
Pale grey Eurasian pigeon having black-striped wings from which most domestic species are descended.  Synonyms: Columba livia, rock dove.






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"Rock pigeon" Quotes from Famous Books



... this jaunt reaches at times an ecstatic pitch, which, as old Weller says, "werges on the poetical." "For him (the gastronomist) the dark rocks and arid plains of the dry Dekkan produce their purple grapes, and cunning but goodly bustard; for him burning Bundelcund its wonderful rock pigeon and ortolan inimitable; the Jumna, most ancient of rivers, its large rich Kala banse, and tasty crabs; for him yields the low and marshy Terace her elegant florican; the mighty Gunga its melting mahaseer; the Goomtee its exquisite ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 341, March, 1844, Vol. 55 • Various

... (112/3. The Columba oenas of Europe roosts on trees and builds its nest in holes, either in trees or the ground ("Var. of Animals," Volume I., page 183).) (which is partly, indeed almost entirely, a wood pigeon), there is no other rock pigeon with which our domestic pigeon would cross—that is, if several exceedingly close geographical races of C. livia, which hardly any ornithologist looks at as true species, be all grouped under C. livia. (112/4. Columba livia, the Rock-pigeon. "We may conclude with confidence ...
— More Letters of Charles Darwin - Volume I (of II) • Charles Darwin



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