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Bird Studies. 



pure white in the adult male, and gives the bird a characteristic on which its 



name is based and by means of which it is readily recognized. The female 



White-crowned ^^^^ ^^ '^^^ ^^^ male but is duller, and has the white of the 



Pigeon. head ashy, 



coiumba leucocephaia This pigeon is 3. bird of the Greater Antilles and is of 



regular occurrence at Key West and on the Keys off the 

 southern end of Florida. It nests in low bushes, lays two white eggs, nearly 

 an inch and a half long and an inch in their smaller diameter. 



WHERE ROBINS SING AND NEST. 



