Being more than mildly anal-retentive, I can't seem to give-up on this.
In rough chronological sequence, we would have:
Aphrodite's sparrows
(sometimes englished as Venus' doves)
Anacreon's dove/pigeon (strictly, an anonymous Anacreontea poet, and thus
post-dating Sappho.
Catullus' sparrows ...
(Stanley, Johnson)
Robin
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