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NATURAL* HISTORY 
DOVE-HOUSE PIGEON. 
The Dove-house Pigeon is well known as 
to his shape, but the eolour varies so much 
that it eludes the rules of classification. 
They prefer a gregarious life, and abide 
often to the number of five or six hundred 
in a house purposely built for them, with 
proper holes to nestle in. The female 
pigeon, throughout the whole species, lays 
two eggs at a time, which almost always 
produce young ones of different sexes. It is 
very pleasing to see how eager the male is 
to sit upon the eggs, in order that his mate 
may rest and feed herself: faithfulness and 
harmony are invariable inmates of their 
nest: most happy would they be had they 
no others; but they are often infested by 
insects always ready to vex and torment 
their young. 
