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