house-dove

In the month of April of the same year, the house-dove also took its flight.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 Various

I hope some day you will visit these beautiful scenes, or others as beautiful; and that the house-dove will take its flight to see all the beauties of nature, which he knows so well how to paint.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 Various

Then 1 James I.c. 29 awarded three months 'imprisonment "without bail or mainprise" to any person who should "shoot at, kill, or destroy with any gun, crossbow, stonebow, or longbow, any house-dove or pigeon," but allowed an alternative fine of twenty shillings to be paid to the churchwardens of the parish for the benefit of the poor.

Daddy Darwin's Dovecot: A Country Tale 1881

Very ancient statutes making the killing of a house-dove felony.

Daddy Darwin's Dovecot: A Country Tale 1881

The lawyer chatted kindly and intelligently; he gave Daddy Darwin wine and biscuit, and talked of the long standing of the Darwin family and its vicissitudes; he even took down some fat yellow books, and showed the old man how many curious laws had been made from time to time for the special protection of pigeons in Dovecots, very ancient statutes making the killing of a house-dove felony.

Jackanapes, Daddy Darwin's Dovecot and Other Stories Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863

This is a department, in itself, not common among the farm buildings, in the United States; and for the reason, probably, that the domestic pigeon, or house-dove, is usually kept more for amusement than for profit -- there being little actual profit about them -- and is readily accommodated in the spare lofts of sheds and out-buildings devoted to other purposes.

Rural Architecture Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings Lewis Falley Allen 1845

As to the wild wood-pigeon, the _OEnas_, or _Vinago_, of Ray, I am much of your mind, and see no reason for making it the origin of the common house-dove: but suppose those that have advanced that opinion may have been misled by another appellation, often given to the _OEnas_, which is that of stock-dove.

The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 Gilbert White 1756

In the first place the wild stock-dove is manifestly larger than the common house-dove, against the usual rule of domestication, which generally enlarges the breed.

The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 Gilbert White 1756

"shoot at, kill, or destroy with any gun, crossbow, stone-bow, or longbow, any house-dove or pigeon;" but allowed an alternative fine of twenty shillings to be paid to the churchwardens of the parish for the benefit of the poor.

Jackanapes, Daddy Darwin's Dovecot and Other Stories Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863