Identifier: scripturenatural00reli (find matches)
Title: Scripture natural history: containing a description of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, amphibia, fishes, insects, molluscous animals, corals, plants, trees, precious stones, and metals, mentioned in the Holy Scriptures
Year: 1845 (1840s)
Authors: Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Publication
Subjects: Nature in the Bible
Publisher: Philadelphia, Presbyterian board of publication
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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hich he is supported by the Septuagint, Josephus,and Jerome,) At about two cubits above the face ofthe earth; which indicates that they flew at so mo-derate a height above the ground as to be caughtwithout difficulty. This appears much more probablethan that they lay in heaps two cubits high, by whichvast numbers must have been suffocated, and there-fore rendered unfit for food. Hasselquist, speakingof the quail, says, I have met with it in the wilder- 96 SCRIPTURE NATURAL HISTORY. ness of Palestine, near the shores of the Dead Sea andJordan, between Jordan and Jericho, and in the desertsof Arabia Petraea. If the food of the Israelites in thedesert was a bird, this is certainly it, being so commonin the places through which they passed.—Travels,p. 203. Quails are very pugnacious birds. They were keptfor the purpose of fighting, like game-cocks, by theGreeks and Romans, and the same barbarous customexists in China at the present day. THE PIGEON DOVE Order.—Rasores, or Gallinaceous.
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THE TURTLE DOVE. Pigeons, or doves, are found in a wild state, and in-habit all the warm and temperate regions of the earth.There are upwards of a hundred species, besidesvarieties. The first mention of the dove in Scripture is in Gen.viii. 8, 10, 11, where Noah sends one from the arkto ascertain if the waters of the deluge were assuaged.This bird was very early used in sacrifice, Gen. xv. 9. THE PIGEON, OR DOVE. 97 Under the Mosaic law, doves, or young pigeons, werethe sacrifice of the poor who could not present anythingmore costly, Lev. i. 14; v. 7,11; xh. 6, 8; xiv. 22,30 ; xv. 14, 29 ; Numb. vi. 10; Lnke ii. 24. It wasto supply doves for these sacrifices that they were of-fered for sale in the temple: and we read that ourSaviour overthrew the seats of them that solddoves. Matt. xxi. 12 ; Mark. xi. 15. The collared turtle, or laughing dove, (so called fromits uttering a sound resembling a laugh,) is probablythe species referred to in the Scripture, as it is commonin Syria and the a

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