Pale grey Eurasian pigeon having black-striped wings from which most domestic species are descended.
1No wild beasts or birds, except the rock pigeon and duck, ever drink except when rain falls.
2A new species of rock pigeon (Petrophassa, GOULD.)
3All the fancy breeds now raised come from the common pigeon, which is descended from the wild rock pigeon or rock dove.
4These big water-birds do not travel as fast as the rock pigeons.
5Just so, but these are wild or rock pigeons.
6Walking back through the cold at night, through a startled gust of rock pigeons, Cutter heard a voice.
7There was a rush of many wings, and a flock of terrified rock pigeons flew from the cave.
8In half an hour the hunters returned with a few rock pigeons, which they roasted as well as they could.
9At Point Greta the rock pigeons-theoriginal stock of the domesticated race-wereflying about in large flocks or sunning themselves on the sea cliffs.
10These survivors were the equivalent of the house sparrows, rock pigeons, and rats that thrive around humans, each either unpalatable or hard to catch.
Translations for rock pigeon