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ORDER IV. 
COLUMBINE, 
Bill, weak, {lender, ftrait at the bafe, with aloft protuberant fub- 
ftance, in which the noftrils are lodged. Tongue, entire: 
Legs, fhort, and red: Toes, divided to the origin. Swift and 
diftant flight, walking pace. Plaintive note, or cooing , peculiar 
to the order. The male inflates or fwells up its bread in court- 
flhip. Female, lays but two eggs at a time. Male and female 
fit alternately ; and feed their young, ejecting the meat out of 
their ftomachs into the mouths of the neftlings. Granivorous,, 
feminivorous. The nefi: fimple, in trees, or holes of rocks, 
or walls. 
XL. PIGEON. There is only one genus of this orders it is therefore needlefs to 
repeat the charadlers. 
A well known bird. 
Inhabits all the Continents. 
Columba of Linn^us and Brijfon , I. 67. Linn^us has XL fpe- 
cies, Brijfon XLIV. 
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