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Pigeons and Doves
Of three hundred birds of this order known to scientists, over one hundred are confined to the Malay Archipelago, yet there are only twenty-eight in India, fewer still in Australia, only twelve species in the whole of North America, and of that number but two pigeons and one dove now stray far enough beyond the Florida Keys and southern borders to come within the scope of this book.
