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Cohimba tabellaria, Lin. Syft. i. p. 281. 12. 

 Le Pigeon Meffager, Brif. orn. i. p. 77. I. 

 Carrier Pigeon, Rati Syn. p. 60. 5. — Will. orn. 

 iL pi. 45. 



Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



p. 181. 5. pi. 34. — Mhix. 



Var. P. 

 CARRIER Pi. 



*TP H I S is much like the laft in colour, and remarkable for Description, 



being- extremely tuberculated about, the eyea and bill: the 

 irides fcarlet : the legs red. 



This fort was formerly made ufe of for carryujg letters ; now 

 greatly left off. This was effected eafily j for after one of thefe 

 Pigeons had been confined for fome time, it was carried, to a dis- 

 tance and then let fly ; and never failed to find its way home im- 

 mediately ; flying in a direft line towards it, with the letter,, 

 which was confined under its wing *.. 



CoJumba gutturafa, Lin. Syfi. i. p. 280; 4. — Faun. Suec. N° 207. y.—EriJch, 



t. 146.. 

 Le Pigeon Grand gofier, Brif. orn. i. p. 78. K. 



•— grofle gorge, Buf. oif. ii. p. 505. pi. 17. l8. 



Cropper Pigeon, Raii Syn. p. 60. 2. — Will. orn. p. 181, 2. pi. 34. 



Lev. Muf. 



C IZE of the Roman Pigeon; and has the faculty of filling its 

 crop with wind, till it appears of a monftrous fize. It. varies 

 nsuch. Buffon records thirteen varieties.. 



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Var. Q^ 

 POWTER P, 



Description. 



* Said to fly above twenty-fix miles in an hour: But Lithgoiu, in his Tra« 

 wis, mentions a Pigeon which exceeded this ; as it went from Babylon to Aleppo, 

 which is thirty days journey, in the fpace of forty-eight hours! . 



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