Page 23

9
#4 f
NAD     DOVE.
COLMJ' 1 '  .
I . .  U
A   I,
.4  *
Plate XII. ig. 2.
-  Xg
* Coltg a zqdsiOdafB. Ada. um. Ua S. in Journ. £  Phil. b. Ott Bird
U S.
Sp.19qs, in Contr. Macl, Lyc. Ph. 1, p. 22. j . Syn. Birds U. S. Sp, 198,
in Ann.
-Lyc. Mat. Hist. N. Y. II7 p. 119. ID Ipl in Zool. J*rn. LonE', p. 6.
e!                     Myf Collectfi.
TrnS nam   e of  ve is not commonly used fto designata
!systematic group, but is empIoyed for all t  small Pigons
,i, diseriminately, whilst the larger Doves 4e k  wn ´as Pigeons.
Even this distiiittion of sif hbwever does not seem to be agreed
upon, as we find authors callig the l  er species Doves, and
the smaller ones Pigeons, and"Nmetim    even applyIng bg 4
appellations to differi*sexes or ages of the same species, as
the case of the common Aiericlh Pigeon, CAW& mgatoria.
This extensive family oA birds, so remarkable for richness and
spleI dr pf colours, so important as contributing #rge   to
supply the wants of matind, so int estng as formlmg so perfect
a linl between thetwo great divisions of the 3athered tribs
has been diviid on more philosophical principles into. tree
groups, which some naturalists consider as genera, and $thers as
sub~Bera or sections. Of these two only are found represented
in merica, the third, a very natural group, eing con ned to
Afrca and the large eastern islands of the' Atd world. Tht to
which the present bird, and all the North American speies but
one, belong, Jis the most Wpical %f all, being cbracterized  aI2
:straight and slender bill, loth mandibles of which are soft and
44.
p M
AW .Wf 01
,~5
4  %
i.
4
.
W.- %r
I- MT
p
^a
WX   A     , '
Ui- 'fl!A/(A4e
I a
0 .
UT
VW
,;A
a
p I .0