THE PIGEON. 



Chcsnut Shouldered Pigeon. 



Bronze Winged Pigeon. 



The Chcsnut Shouldered Pigeon'isa beautiful bird, which appears to resemble the Ring Dove in its 

 habits. It is a native of New ZealflA and is^ery abunditfit in the Bay of Islands. 



The Bronze Winged Pigeon is a native of Australia. It frequents dry, sandy places, and is generally 

 seen either on the ground or perched qn low branches, or decayed stumps of trees. 



The Helmet Pigeon is one of the tame varieties, so called from a tuft of feathers on the back of the 

 head resembling the crest of a helmet. 



The Carrier Pigeon is larger than the Common Pigeon, and its form indicates great strength and activity. 

 The wattles on the beak, and round the eye, are very remar-kable. Its feats of letter-carrying are 

 well known. 



Among many facts which may be depended on, relative tafn'e extraordinary qualities of the birds of the 

 Carrier kind, we select the following. 



A gentleman sent a Carrier by the stage-coach from London, to a friend at St. Edmundsbury, 

 with a note, requesting that the Pigeon might be< set at liberty two days after its arrival, precisely at nine 

 in the morning. The person at St. Edmundsbury punctually attended to this request ; and the Pigeon 

 arrived in London at half-past eleven o'clock the same day ; thus having performed a distance of seventy- 

 two miles in two hours and a half. 



Helmet Pigeon. 



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Ring Dove. 

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Carrier Pigeon. 



