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WOOD PIGEON 
Columha mnas Linn. 
PLATE XI. 
Columba tanas, Linn. Syal. 1. 279. 1. B — Lath. Ind. Orn. 
2. 589. sp. 1 Briss. Orn. v. 1. sp. 6. — Colombe colombin. 
Temm. Pig. et Gal. 1. 118. — Id. Man. d'Ornith. 2. p. 445. 
— Stock Dove, Ulus. Br. Orn. 2. 408. pL 5G. f. 1. 
Of inferior size, but nearly allied in habits and 
manners, we now present our readers with the figure 
of a species, which, till of late years, by most of our 
writers, was confounded with the rock pigeon, the 
original stock of our common pigeon, or at least had 
its history so mixed up with the descriptions of that 
bird, as to render its individuality and specific dis- 
tinction a matter of considerable doubt. Brisson 
appears to have been the first who accurately point- 
ed out the distinctions between the two, and he has 
since been followed by Tcmi|i|nrk, who, in his ge- 
njral history of the pigeons, And his excellent and 
useful Manual of Ornithology, has so clearly mark- 
ed its distinctive characters, and described its habits, 
as to render it almost impossible even for a very tyro 
to confound or mistake the one with the other. 
Like the previously described species, it is indi- 
