NATURALISTS CABINET. 



Particular species Description. 



The little bustard differs only from the preced- 

 in^ in being of a smaller size, being not larger 

 than a pheasant, or about seventeen inches in 

 length. It is found in many parts of Europe ; 

 but by no means common in France, and has 

 only been met with three or four times in. 

 England. 



There are six or seven species of this kind, 

 two or three of which, particularly the houbara 

 and the rhaad (both African birds) are crested, 

 and different from the European ones, by some 

 varieties in their plumage ; but there are not any 

 of the species found in America. 



THE PIGEON. 



FROM its great fecundity, this bird has 

 tempted man to endeavour to reclaim it from a 

 state of nature, and teach it to live in habits of 

 dependence ; and in which he has in some mea- 

 sure been successful. All the beautiful varieties 

 of the tame pigeon derive their origin from one 

 species, the stockdove; the English name, im- 

 plying its being the stock or stem from whence 

 the other domestic kinds have been propagated. 

 This bird, in its natural state, is of a deep bluish 

 ash-colour; the breast dashed with a fine change- 

 able green and purple ; the sides of the neck of 

 a reddish gold colour; its wings marked with 

 two black bars, one on the quill-feathers, and the 

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