I
suppose the reason I thought of this was because at the time two
pairs of doves, one on a heap of driftwood overhanging the river,
and the other in an apple tree in the Aspy orchard a few rods
away, were giving me much trouble, and I had dove grey on my
mind.
This same dove grey coloured the basic third of the fore-wings.
Then they were crossed with a band only a little less in width,
of rich cinnamon brown. There was a narrow wavy line of lighter
brown, and the remaining third of the wing was paler, but with
darker shadings. These four distinct colour divisions were
exquisitely blended, and on the darkest band, near the costa,
was a tiny white half moon. The under sides of the fore-wings
were a delicate brownish grey, with heavy flushings of a purplish
pink, a most beautiful colour.
The back wings were dove colour near the abdomen, more of a mouse
colour around the edges, and beginning strongly at the base, and
spreading in lighter shade over the wing, was the same purplish
pink of the front under-wing, only much stronger.
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