CHAP. V.j 



DOVEHOUSE PIGEON. 



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Dovehouse Pigeon (Columba affinis of Blyth). 



exhibits less dislike to the neighbourhood of man. A 

 few pairs build their nests among the cornices and capi- 

 tals of the public buildings even in London ; and the 

 church steeple of Morningthorpe in Norfolk was lately 

 tenanted by some of these birds, whose nesting-places 

 had been pulled down*. 



Mr. E. Blyth f gives an account of the Rock Pigeon 

 of India, which he believes to be distinct from that of 

 Europe, and of some domestic Pigeons of the same 



* A still stranger settlement was this : " The other day, ex- 

 amining a wooden railway-bridge across a drain, I found several 

 Pigeons building underneath, in spite of the thundering of the 

 trains which were constantly passing within a few inches of their 

 heads." W. W. C. 



f Annals of Natural History, vol. xix. p. 101. 



