error.

[324] 'Handbuch der Naturgesch. Vogel Deutschlands.'

[325] 'Tagebuch Reise nach Faero,' 1830, s. 62.

[326] 'Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist.,' vol. xix., 1847, p. 102. This
excellent paper on pigeons is well worth consulting.

[327] 'Natural History of Ireland,' Birds, vol. ii. (1850), p. 11. For
Graba, _see_ previous reference.

[328] 'Coup-d'oeil sur l'Ordre des Pigeons,' Comptes Rendus, 1854-55.

[329] 'Naturgesch. Deutschlands,' Band iv., 1795, s. 14.

[330] 'History of British Birds,' vol. i. pp. 275-284. Mr. Andrew Duncan
tamed a rock-pigeon in the Shetland Islands. Mr. James Barclay, and Mr.
Smith of Uyea Sound, both say that the wild rock-pigeon can be easily
tamed; and the former gentleman asserts that the tamed birds breed four
times a year. Dr. Lawrence Edmondstone informs me that a wild rock-pigeon
came and settled in his dovecot in Balta Sound in the Shetland Islands, and
bred with his pigeons; he has also given me other instances of the wild
rock-pigeon having been taken young and breeding in captivity.

[331] 'Annals and Mag. of Nat. History,' vol. xix., 1847, p. 103, and vol.
for 1857, p. 512.

[332] Domestic pigeons of the common kind are mentioned as being pretty
numerous in John Barbut's 'Description of the Coast of Guinea' (p. 215),
published in 1746; they are said, in accordance with the name which they
bear, to have been imported.

[333] With respect to feral pigeons--for Juan Fernandez, _see_ Bertero in
'Annal. des Sc. Nat.,' tom. xxi. p. 351. For Norfolk Island, _see_ Rev. E.
S. Dixon in the 'Dovecote,' 1851, p. 14, on the authority of Mr. Gould. For
Ascension I rely on MS. information given me by Mr. Layard. For the banks
of the Hudson, _see_ Blyth in 'Annals of Nat. Hist.,' vol. xx., 1857, p.
511. For Scotland, _see_ Macgillivray, 'British Birds,' vol. i. p. 275;
also Thompson's 'Nat. History of Ireland, Birds,' vol. ii. p. 11. For
ducks, _see_ Rev. E. S. Dixon, 'Ornamental Poultry,' 1847, p. 122. For the
feral hybrids of the common and musk-ducks, _see_ Audubon's 'American
Ornithology,' and Selys-Longchamp's 'Hybrides dans la Famille des
Anatides.' For the goose, Isidore Geoffrey St. Hilaire, 'Hist. Nat. Gen.,'
tom. iii. p. 498. For guinea-fowls, _see_ Gosse's 'Naturalist's Sojourn in
Jamaica,' p. 124; and his 'Birds of Jamaica' for fuller particulars. I saw
the wild guinea-fowl in Ascension. For the peacock, _see_ 'A Week at Port
Royal,' by a competent authority, Mr. R. Hill