dove-melody

Updated: May 25, 2025

There are doves belonging to the same genus as stock-dove and wood-pigeon, that have exceedingly good voices, in which the peculiar mournful dove-melody has reached its highest perfection weird and passionate strains, surging and ebbing, and startling the hearer with their mysterious resemblance to human tones.

W. H. (William Henry) Hudson - Birds in Town and Village