COLLARED PIGEON. 



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young ones were able to fly, they always escaped 

 to their proper haunts. Montagu took considera- 

 ble pains to endeavour to change their nature, 

 and though he so far tamed them within doors 

 as to become exceedingly troublesome, he could 

 never induce them to breed. Two were bred up 

 together with a male Pigeon, and were so tame 

 as to eat out of the hand ; but as they shewed 

 no signs of breeding in the spring, they were 

 suffered, in the month of June, to take their li- 

 berty : it was supposed that the tame Pigeon might 

 induce them to return to their usual place of 

 abode, either for food or to roost ; but from that 

 time they assumed their natural habits, and no- 

 thing more was seen of them. This bird delights 

 in sitting on the dead branches of trees, and look- 

 ing around as if apprehensive of danger, which 

 renders it difficult to shoot. 



This species is called the Queest, Ctishaty or 

 Ring Dove, 



COLLARED PIGEON. 

 (Columba armillaris.) 



Co. nigro-coBrulea, Jacie armilldque alba, ahdomine crissoque albo 

 maculis ovatis nigris, cauda apice alba. 



Black-blue Pigeon, with the face and collar white; the ab- 

 domen and vent white, with ovate black spots; the tail 

 white at the tip. 



