RARER BRITISH BIRDS. 
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WOOD PIGEON. 
Columba IEnas. Latham. 
Great confusion has been made by our British naturalists 
of other days, and, indeed, by some of those of the present day, 
among the species of the Pigeon tribe found in our isles, though 
they are so few in number. The Columba iEnas, or Wood 
Pigeon, has, in most of their works, been confounded with the 
C. Livia, or Rock Pigeon. The Rock Pigeon is, unquestionably, 
the progenitor of our domestic breeds, and all its varieties, and 
is the one figured by Bewick under the name of C. iEnas, or 
Wild Pigeon, the rump being white, and the black bars across 
the wings broad ; while, on the contrary, the C. iEnas has the 
rump of the same colour as the back ; and the wings, instead 
of having bars of black, like its near ally the Rock Pigeon, 
have merely a black spot on the exterior web of some of the 
