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COLUMBID^ : PIGEONS. 



tutes for domestic pigeons in those contests of skill 

 between sportsmen which our most prominently mis- 

 guided misanthrope, Mr. Henry Bergh, has so long 

 vainly essayed to suppress. The works of sundry 

 authors who treat of Pigeons contain a large store of 

 eligible reading matter on the subject of this Pigeon, 

 which the limitations of our own treatise forbid us to 

 transcribe, or even reproduce in substance ; and we have 

 no new information to offer in its stead. 



Fig. 2S. — Wild Pigeon. 



The eggs are one or two in number, pure white in 

 color, of elliptical shape, measuring about 1.50 by i.io, 

 and are laid from April to June. 



WILD DOVE: MOURNING DOVE. 



Zenaidura carolinensis {L.) Bp. 



Chars. Tail, 14-feathered, long and wedge-shaped, colored much 

 like that of the Wild Pigeon, but lacking chestnut on the outer 



