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does not survive ; the pigeon called ocotzimtzcan is one of 

 the most splendid tenants of the Mexican forests ; pigeons 

 of the dove-house not so faithful as the turtle-dove ; two 

 males quarrel for the same mistress ; and when the female 

 admits the addresses of a new gallant, her old companion 

 bears the contempt with marks of displeasure, abstains 

 from her company, or when he approaches is sure to 

 chastise her ; instances of two males displeased with their 

 mates, who have made an exchange, and lived in harmony 

 with their new companions ; near fifteen thousand pigeons 

 may in four years be produced from a single pair ; the 

 stock-dove seldom breeds above twice a-year ; have a 

 stronger attachment to their young than those who breed 

 so often ; the pigeons called carriers used to convey letters ; 

 not trained with so much care as formerly, when sent from 

 a besieged city to those coming to relieve it ; in an hour 

 and a half they perform a journey of forty miles ; the last 

 public use made of them was to let them off at the place of 

 execution, when the cart was drawn away from under the 

 malefactor, iv. 233, &c. 



Pigmy, existence of a pigmy race of mankind founded in 

 error or in fable, ii. 104. 



Pigmy of Tyson, the ourang-outang, or the wild man of the 

 woods, iii. 280. 



Pigtail is the last of the baboons ; M. Buffon calls it maimon ; 

 its description ; is a native of Sumatra, not well enduring 

 the rigours of our climate, iii, 301. 



Pike, the description of this fish, v. 125. Poets have called 

 it the tyrant of the watery plain ; instances of their rapacity, 

 151. 



Pilchards, little differing from the herring; make the coast of 

 Cornwall their place of resort ; the natives sometimes enclose 

 a bay of several miles extent with nets called faines ; how 

 directed, some years ago, to know where to extend the nets ; 

 they take twelve or fifteen hundred barrels of pilchards at a 

 draught ; serve also for manure ; advantages of this fishery ; 

 money paid for pilchards exported has annually amounted 

 to near fifteen thousand pounds, v. 141. 



Pillau, on the Baltic, the shores near that place divided into 

 districts for the sturgeon fishery, and allotted to companies 

 of fishermen, who rent some of them at three hundred pounds 

 a-year, v. 100. 



Pilori, one of the three distinctions of the musk-rat; it is a 

 native of the West India islands, iii. 186. 



Pilot of the shark, name given the sucking-fish or remora, and 

 why, v. 73. 



Pinch, name of a monkey of the sagoin kind ; its description, 

 iii. 319. 



