Citations:tobacco dove

English citations of tobacco dove

• 1782, Peter Henry Bruce, Memoirs of Peter Henry Bruce, Esq., a Military Officer, in the Services of Prussia, Russia, and Great Britain: Containing an Account of His Travels in Germany, Russia, Tartary, Turkey, the West Indies, &c., as Also Several Very Interesting Private Anecdotes of the Czar, Peter I, of Russia, page 424:

  1744 BOO K XII. all over the body, with black wings; they are excellent eating; wild geese, ducks, pigeons, and green parrots in great plenty; besides whisling ducks, Musketo hawks, tobacco doves, crab-catchers, galdings […]

• 1941, Glanville Wynkoop Smith, Many a Green Isle:

  I thought of the tobacco doves especially, so gregarious, with a lining of burnt orange under their rattling wings. Then my thoughts would roam away to the hummingbirds, and how they proved Pliny's saying […]

• 1947, Bahamas. Legislature. House of Assembly, Votes:

  Many birds are to be found in Eleuthera; the most common are pigeons, wood doves, ground doves, (usually called tobacco doves). Scale and shell fish are found in the waters surrounding the District; those commonly used for food […]

• 1954, Bahamas, Acts Passed in the ... Years ...:

  ... Coconut bird of Andros, Tom fools, Flamingoes, Spoonbills, Herons, Man-of-war birds, Pelican, Crane, Sea-gull, Noddy, Egg-bird, Pimlico, Booby, Redshank, Killem-Peter, Tobacco Doves, Amazonian Parrots. 2.

• 1995, Thomas McGuane, Panama, Vintage, →ISBN, page 7:

  I felt better and lost all interest in mutilating myself, even for Catherine. Tobacco doves settled in the crown-of-thorns and some remote airplane changed harmonics overhead with a soft pop like champagne, leaving a pure white seam on […]

• 1997, Gilbert C. Klingel, Inagua, which is the Name of a Very Lonely and Nearly Forgotten Island, Lyons Press:

  ... they were very comfortable and gave the pleasant feeling of walking barefooted. At the same time I cut an extra pair and stuffed them into the grass bag along with the preserved lizards. For breakfast I shot six tobacco doves […]

• 2008 September 1, Stetson Kennedy, Grits & Grunts: Folkloric Key West, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN:

  Sometime we 'ave a gun an' we kill wild pigeons, rabbits, tobacco doves, and creatures like that, and 'ave us a feed. We gets young cocoanuts and drinks cocoanut water, and eats tamarinds, too. If we 'as a boat 'andy we goes out and […]