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Excerpt from The Game Birds and Wild Fowl of the British Islands: Being a Handbook for the Naturalist and Sportsman
Our first order consists of the Columbiformes or Pigeons. The Pigeons are a widely distributed group, but the four hundred and seventy or so species that compose it are very unequally dispersed, even in those warmer portions Of the globe that they chiefly afi'ect. They are by far the least abundant in cold northern latitudes, and perhaps reach their highest degree of development, and certainly their preponderance in numbers, in the Australian region - an area, be it remarked, abounding in islands and offering those facilities for isolation so favourable to the establishment Of new species - the number of known species therein nearly equalling those in all other parts of the world combined. The Nearctic and Palaearctic regions are the poorest in species the Ethiopian region comes next; whilst the Oriental and Neotropical regions, next to the Australian region, are nearly equal in their number of Columbine forms and abimdantly represented. The Pigeons belonging to the British genera, Columba and Turtur. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
