GREEN- WINGED DOVE. 
we apprehend, in his descriptions alone, suffi- 
cient to support us in the notion, that there 
subsists a natural distin6lion between the Dove 
and the Pigeon families; notwithstanding we 
are ready to concede, that the blended proge- 
nies, in general, may be considered as Pigeons, 
rather than Doves. 
AVe shall present, from Goldsmith, a few 
cxtra6ls, in his own words — 
" The fidelity of the Turtle Dove is pro- 
verbial, and makes the usual comparison of 
such poets as are content to repeat what others 
have said before them : but the Pigeon of the 
Dove-House is not so faithful; and, having 
been subjedled to man, it puts on licentious- 
ness, among it's other domestic habits. 
So great is the produce of the Pigeon, in 
jt*s domestic state, that near fifteen thousand 
may, in the space of four years, be produced 
from a single pair: but the Stock Dove sel- 
dom breeds above twice a year; for, when tlic 
winter months come, the whole emplovment 
of the fond couple is rather for self-prcserva- 
tion» than transmitting a posterity. They 
seem, 
