OUR WILD PIGEONS. 



OP all our native birds, none seem to me invested with 

 more vivid interest than the wild pigeons. I cannot help 

 regarding them as the greatest ornament and truest 

 emblem of sylvan scenery ; and I never see one sitting 

 upon a bough, or in bold, earnest flight through the air, 

 without a sense of exquisite pleasure a feeling of thank- 

 fulness that my home is in the country. 



RING AND ROCK DOVES. 



In addition to the physical beauty of these birds, their 

 MORAL character if I be permitted so to speak is un- 

 exceptionable. They are neither predatory nor poly- 

 gamous; for the first, contenting themselves with a 



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