. The dovecote and the aviary : being sketches of the natural history of pigeons and other domestic birds in a captive state : with hints for their management. Cage birds; Pigeons. DOVEHOUSE PIGEON. 163. DoveJiouse Pigeon (Columba (iffinis of Blyth). exhibits less dislike to the neighbourhood of man. A few pairs build their nests among the cornices and capi- tals of the public buildings even in London ; and the church steeple of Morningthorpe in Norfolk was lately tenanted by some of these birds, whose nesting-places had been pulled down*. Mr. E. Blyth f gives an account of the Rock Pigeon of
. The dovecote and the aviary : being sketches of the natural history of pigeons and other domestic birds in a captive state : with hints for their management. Cage birds; Pigeons. DOVEHOUSE PIGEON. 163. DoveJiouse Pigeon (Columba (iffinis of Blyth). exhibits less dislike to the neighbourhood of man. A few pairs build their nests among the cornices and capi- tals of the public buildings even in London ; and the church steeple of Morningthorpe in Norfolk was lately tenanted by some of these birds, whose nesting-places had been pulled down*. Mr. E. Blyth f gives an account of the Rock Pigeon of India, which he believes to be distinct from that of Europe, and of some domestic Pigeons of the same * A still stranger settlement was this : " The other day, ex- amining a wooden railway-bridge across a drain, I found several Pigeons building underneath, in spite of the thundering of the trains which were constantly passing within a few inches of their ;—TTT. W. C. t Annals of Natural History, vol. xix. p. 101. M '2. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Dixon, Edmund Saul, 1809-1893. London : Wm. S. Orr
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