[a. Fr. biset, f. bis dark-grey, greyish brown.] The wild rock-pigeon.
1834. R. Mudie, Feather. Tribes (1841), I. 74. Biset, a kind of fancy pigeon.
1837. Penny Cycl., VII. 370/1. The ring pigeon … and the rock pigeon or biset (Columba livia).
