Species of domesticated pigeons, Columba livia domestica. Common pigeon, Columba vulgaris (top), and pigeon with crest and muff or feathered legs, Columba anglica vel russica (bottom). Woodcut engraving after an illustration by Lucas Schan and Conrad Gessner from Conrad Gessner’s Historiae Animalium, De avium natura, (Natural history of animals: birds), Frankfurt, Wechel for Cambier, 1585.

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