French Mondain and Cravate varieties of pigeon, Columba livia, on farm buildings and European turtle dove, Streptopelia turtur, near nest with eggs. Handcoloured engraving on steel by Fournier after a drawing by Edouard Travies from Richard's "New Edition of the Complete Works of Buffon," Pourrat Freres, Paris, 1837.

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