
6 THE NATURAL HISTORY 
The effects of cultivation are feen more or lefs 
he every animal under our care. Canary birds . 
ate now bred with crefts, fome with yellow fea- 
thers, fome mottled, and t by combining thefe va- 
, rieties other new varieties will probably take 
place, 
An account ‘then of every ‘different race of 
_ Pigeons, is not fo properly the natural hiftory of 
the bird, as an account of the art and induftry of | 
man, applied*to this particular object. 
The Stock Dove is fo called becaufe it is ‘the. 
ftock or ftem from which probably moft of the 
others fprang; for however numerous the {pecies 
of Pigeons may appear, it is very pofible that a 
few only exift in nature, and that the reft are va- 
rieties, the natural effect of domieftication at firlt, 
"and particular attention afterwards. 
The Stock Dove, which is the P Pigeon in its : 
wild ftate, breeds but once or twice in the year 5 
they migrate into England in great numbers from 
colder climates at the approach of winter, fome 
indeed fiay with us the whole year, breeding in 
woods, on trees, in the holes of trees that are. 
_ decayed, or in the crevices of rocks, whence it. 
has fometimes been called the Rock Pigeon, and 
the Wood Pigeon. a 
3 Whilft 
