PIGEON. 



2.—WHITE-RUMPED PIGEON. 



Columba domestica, Ind. Orn.W. 589. Lin.L 279. Faun. suec. No. 207. Gm. Lin.'i. 



769. Scop. i. No. 177. Kramer, 358. 1. /3. Germ. iii. 270. Roman. Orn. i. 76. 



1. 11. jRaii, 59. A. 1. Will. p. 130. Id. Engl. 180. Br«. i. 68. 1. Id. 8vo. i. 



13. Klein, 118. 1. 

 Der Haustaube, Naturf. xvii. 75. 

 Pigeon commun, Buf. ii. 501. P/. en/. 460. 

 Colombo domestico, Cett. Uc. Sard. 135. Borowsk, iii. 207. 

 Pigeon domestique, Tern. Pig. /ol. p. 31. pi. 12. Id. 8vo. i. 193. 

 Common Pigeon, Br. Zool. No. 101. pi. 45. Id.fol. t. 88. Ttf. £</. 1812. i. p. 303. 



Sloan. Jam. 302. Brown, Jam. 468. A/bin, iii. pi. 42. 44. 

 White-rumped Pigeon, Gen. Syn. iv. 605. Bewick, pi. in p. 267. Lewin, iv. pi. 128. 



Donov. pi. 107. Walcot, ii. pi. 186. P«/f. Dors. p. 7. Montag. Om. Diet. 



THIS is smaller than the former, and differs chiefly in having 

 the lower part of the back, and rump white. 



We will not here insist, whether the two above mentioned are 

 distinct, or only one and the same species ; as different sentiments yet 

 subsist on this point. Colonel Montagu, who has written last on 

 this subject, and on whose opinion I have much reliance, seems to 

 consider this as having originally sprung from the same source, 

 describing it under the name of Stock Dove, in his Ornithological 

 Dictionary .; and that the length is thirteen inches and a half, the 

 breadth twenty-two ; weight eleven ounces ; and the chief and 

 constant characteristic the black bars on the wings. Doctor Pallas 

 remarks, that the Common Pigeon is very numerous in the south of 

 Russia, breeding wild in the turrets of the villages, churches, and 

 steep rocky banks of the rivers, migrating to the south in winter. In 

 Siberia none are seen, except beyond Lake Baikal, where a peculiar 

 Variety, of a smaller size, and with a white rump, is seen, but too 

 like to be declared another Species : this last breeds in great plenty 

 among the rocks. 



Authors have noticed the migration of numerous flocks of wild 

 Pigeons into England in autumn, from the more northern regions, 



