﻿PIGEON. 



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Columfoa cenas, Lin. Syjl. 1. p. 279. 1. — Faun. Suec. N° 207. — Scop, ann, i. 



N° 177. 

 Le Pigeon domeftique, Brif. orn. i. p. 68. 1. 

 Common Pigeon, Raii Syn. p. 59. A. 1. 183. 2i.~~Will.0m. p. 1S0.— Sloan. 



Jam. p. 302. — Browon. Jam. p. 468. — Albin. iii. pi. 42. 44 — .5/-. 



Zool. N° 101. pi. 45. 



Lev. Mnf. 



* I ' HIS is fbmewhat lefs than the former, and feems to differ 

 chiefly in having the lower part of the back white. 



+- WHITE- 

 RUMPED P. 



Description. 



Le Bifet, Brif. orn. i. p. 82. 3. — Buf. oif. ii. p. 498. — PL enh 510. 

 Columba Livia, Raii Syn. p. 62. 8. — Will. orn. p. 186. 

 Stock Dove> Alhin. iii. pi. 44. 



2. 



Var. A. 



BISET P. 



r P HI S is the fize of the laft, and has alio the lower part of d escr i PTIO n., 



the back white : it has two black bands acrofs the wings ; 

 and one of the outer tail feathers white on the outer web. I can 

 efteem it but a very trifling variety of the laft-defcribed, perhaps 

 the identical bird. 



Wild Pigeons migrate in quantities into England, at the ap- 

 proach of winter, from the more northern regions, and return in 

 fpring ; not but many remain among the recks, ruined edifices, and 

 mountains, in the more northern parts, the whole year, where 

 they breed i though others frequent the woody parts, building 

 in the holes of decayed trees : hence they have been called 

 by the different names of Rock Pigeon, Stock Dove, Wood Pigeon, 

 &c. The firft remove of the Pigeon from its wild ftate is to that 

 of the Dove-houfe ■, where finding every convenience for building 

 their neft at hand, added to their procuring food on much 



9 eafier 



