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TURTLE-DOVE (Columla Turlur}. 



The domestic habits of our common Pigeon, 

 which in its native state is an inhabitant of our 

 island, and distinguished as the Rock Pigeon, (C. 

 Livia,) are well known, as are also its proneness 

 to run into varieties, some of them being of very 

 singular form, its love for its native home, and the 

 remarkable instinct as well as velocity with which 

 it returns to it after having been removed. We 

 shall prefer to give a few particulars of a foreign 

 species, the most remarkable of its genus, if not 

 of all birds, which, however marvellous and incre- 

 dible they may appear, are yet authenticated beyond 

 all contradiction. 



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