THE PIGEON 



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Chesnut .Shouldered IMgeon. 





Bronze Winged Pigeon. 



The Chesnut Shouldered Pigeon is a beautiful bird, which appears to resemble the Ring Dove in its 

 habits. It is a native of New Zealand, and is very abundant in the Bay of Islands. 



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

 seen either on the ground or perched on 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 remarkable, its feats of letter-carrying are 

 well known. 



Among many facts which maybe depended on, relative to the extraorl" ary qualities of the birds of the 

 Carrier kind, we select the following. 



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

 with a note, requesting that the Pigeon might be set at liberty two days :,fter 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. 



Heimet Pigeon 

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Eing Dove. 



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Carrier Pigeon. 



