

OF BIRDS. , o 
—whila the beech woods covered large tracts of 
-Tand, they haunted them i in myriads, their flocks 
extending in ftrings of a mile in a as they 
went out to. feed, 
‘Their plumage is generally of a bluith caft, ta. : 
heck glofled with green, the back is white, and 
there is a black band on each wing, and at the 
ie of the tail. : - 
The fir ftage of. domeftication is the Doves ! 
“howls Pigeon; this is the intermediate flate be= 
tween the wild and the tame Pi igeon. The Doves 
_ houfe Pigeons breed three times a year, if they 
are pleafed with their fituation. As they diflike 
“interruption, a dove-houfe fituated clofe to our 
habitations feldom fucceeds fo well as one at the 
diftance of four or five hundred yards, and CXe 
- poled tothe morning fun. ¢<5.. 46 eG 
They frequently defert their bouts vic their 
fituation is low, and fly to take pofleffion of others: 
- Whole expofure is more pleafant; but if they” 
fhould continue in thofe which have not the be- 
nefit of the morning fun, they would not increafe: 
fo fat. | 
of ee howe in a fine fituation has: pro~- 
duced four hundred pairs ina feafon, whilf ano-- 
ther, lefs favourably. placed, has produced only. 
@ne hundred pairs, a = 
b. | aha ee When: - 
