There was a sound as of the cooing sob of doves, which seemed to multiply and intensify with each second.
Mourning doves cooed, and the sweet notes of yellow-birds filled the sunny grove with suggestions of happiness.
Doves should be taken off the list of game birds, and protected throughout the year; and so should all tree squirrels.
There came three white doves out of the South Flying over the sea, And drops of honey were in their mouth From the hive of the honey-bee.
Then first came two white doves in at the kitchen window; next came two turtle-doves; and after them came all the little birds under heaven, chirping and hopping about.
The first time we started to go up and down the avenues we scared up a pair of turtle doves, beautiful, delicately tinted gentle creatures, fit tenants of the lovely grove.
They should be as follows: No squirrels, doves or shore birds; six quail, five woodcock, ten coots, ten rail, ten ducks, three geese and three brant, with a total limit of ten waterfowl per day.
The legalized slaughter of robins, cedar birds, grosbeaks and doves should cease immediately, on the basis of economy of resources and a square deal to all the states lying northward of Mississippi.