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Various birds in flight, including eagles, a heron, a pigeon and ducks. Etching after F. Barlow.

A pigeon.

Birds of the town shown in their natural surroundings. Coloured lithograph by P. Trap.

A dove. Coloured engraving.

A pigeon flying. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

Six heads of birds: cocks, parrots and pigeons. Drawing, c. 1789.

Birds on a farm: cockerels, hens, chicks and doves. Etching by F. Place after F. Barlow.

Columbarium, or, The pigeon-house : being an introduction to a natural history of tame pigeons. Giving an account of the several species known in England, with the method of breeding them, their distempers and cures. ... / By John Moore.

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A dove. Coloured engraving.

Six heads of birds: cocks, parrots and pigeons. Drawing, c. 1789.

Birds on a farm: cockerels, hens, chicks and doves. Etching by F. Place after F. Barlow.

Various birds in flight, including eagles, a heron, a pigeon and ducks. Etching after F. Barlow.

Columbarium, or, The pigeon-house : being an introduction to a natural history of tame pigeons. Giving an account of the several species known in England, with the method of breeding them, their distempers and cures. ... / By John Moore.