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NATURAL HISTORY 
O F 
BIRDS. 
Order 6th. PASSERES. 
The beak is conic, and (harp at the point. 
The nollrils are oval, wide, and naked. 
\ H 1 S Order may be feparated into two 
divifions. 
Firft, the Columba, or Columbine, 
which includes Pigeons. 
Secondly, the Paflerine, which includes all the 
other Genera that are placed under the Order of 
the PafTeres. 
Stridly fpeaking the Genus, or rather the Di- 
vifton Columba, forms an order of itfelf, which 
has been called the Columbine; for as is juftly 
obferved in a note in Linnaeus, Pigeons cannot 
properly be claiTcd cither with the'Gallinx, or 
A 2 the 
