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COLUMBIA. 



COLUMBID^ 



THE ROCK DOVE. 



Columba livia. 



Colurriba livia,, Rock Dove, 



Colombe Uset, 



SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 410. 

 JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 162. 

 GOULD, Birds of Europe. 

 TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. p. 446. 



As it is not intended to include in this work either 

 figures or lengthened descriptions of those birds which 

 exist in this country only in a domesticated state, I do 

 not refer to the Columba domestica of Pennant's Zoology, 

 vol. i. page 383, by including it among the synonymes ; 

 and reasons were given under the head of Stock Dove, 

 for omitting also the references in this instance to the works 

 of Montagu, Bewick, and Dr. Fleming. 



The Rock Dove, as its name implies, is a species which, 



