COLUMBINE BIRDS 



(Order Columba) 



Pigeons and Doves 



(Family Columbidce) 



Of three hundred birds of this order known to scientists, 

 over one hundred are confined to the Malay Archipelago, yet 

 there are only twenty-eight in India, fewer still in Australia, only 

 twelve species in the whole of North America, and of that num- 

 ber but two pigeons and one dove now stray far enough beyond 

 the Florida Keys and southern borders to come within the scope 

 of this book. 



Passenger, or Wild Pigeon. 



Band-tailed Pigeon. 



Mourning Dove. 



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