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COLUMBA ZENAIDA. 
over tlie whole crown, not more on one pa 1- ! , ,,[ 
another ; thus never admitting of a restricted ha" 
line, as in that much lighter coloured bird. ..y 
Another species closely allied to, and perhaps ’ y 
tical with, our hand-tailed pigeon, (though we 1 o 
equally good reasons for believing it the Col 11 ’ 1 J 
rufina of Temminck,) and of which we have no* ■ ( |i 
been able to procure specimens, is also well kno" jfl 
breed on the Florida keys, whither probably alni®“ 
the West Indian species occasionally resort. 
40 . COLUMJ1A ZF.NAIDA, BONAPARTE. ZENAIDA rl Cf°‘‘ 
BONAPARTE, TLATE XVII. FIC. II. 
.J 
The name of dove is not commonly used to desir j 
a systematic group, hut is employed for all the 6 fI , 
pigeons indiscriminately, whilst the larger dove 8 y 
known as pigeons. Even this distinction of 
however, does not seem to be agreed upon, as 
authors calling the larger species doves, and the si' 1 ' + 
ones pigeons, and sometimes even applying both 
lations to different sexes or ages of the same sp<‘ 
in the case of the common American 
— — ■■■_- — .............. pigeon, - 
migratoria. This extensive family of birds, so t e ** 
tw 
able for richness and splendour of colours — soimj’^/ 
as contributing largely to supply the wants of man* 1 ' 1 ' |li' 
so interesting as forming so perfect a link betw« eI1 
lid 
two great divisions of the feathered tribes — h8 B ,y 
11 ‘ 1 1 1 ' ' * rt 
divided, on more philosophical principles, into y 
groups, which some naturalists consider 
others as subgenera, or sections. Of these two -y 
as gener* If 
hpsfi tw" J 
are found represented in America; the third, a , y ! 
■ i ti i I . _ ... t* .1 A A X B * .. J ♦111*! 1,1 
natural group, being confined to Africa and *he "d 1 
eastern islands of the old world. That to who' 1 (dj 
present bird, and all the North American spocW'.^ 
one, belong, is the most typical of all, being eharaiT ^,1 
by a straight and slender hill, both mandibles of l l 11 ' 
are soft and flexible, and the upper turgid towar'j' 
end; by their short tarsi, divided toes, and long, ‘ 
