two hours and a half. The fact was confirmed by a letter
sent, by post from the person at Bury St. Edmonds.
A society of Pigeon-fanciers at Ghent give an annual prize'
for the best Carrier Pigeon. In 1838 fife prke-vsfas decided
on the 24th of June, when twenty-four birds'" were sent off
from Rouen,;*? hither they'had been conveyed from Ghent.
The distance in a1 direct linejMs about tme hundred dhd fifty
miles. They were started at Rouen at fifty-five minuted
alter nine oMool -in the morning. ''fiT'he first fWhieh arrived at
Ghent hmlmadei$he;transit in an- hour and a half; sixteen
arrived in two hours and a half; three in th e 'course of the
day, and four were lost.
This power hhs,v'by ah interchange oPbirds,’ been made-
available both in war and in commerce.__
An employment more in character with/; so- rgebtle* a messenger,
is to be the bearer of communi'eatibns between anxious
lovers.
RÄSORES. COLUMBIDÆ.
T H E TU R T L E DOVE.
Columba türtùr\ TM Turtle, P é n n . Brit. Zool.-vol.i. p. 394.
■ .• Z>oi>e, Mont. Omith. Diet. ’ -
,, Bewick, B r i t . 'B i r d s , vol. i . p. 322.
„ FLEM. Brit. An. p. 47. . .
M ‘ S elby, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 413.
' „ ,, ' Jtoyxs, Blit. Vert. p. 162. ^
, G o^ ld, Birds of Europe, pt. ii, .
Colombe turturètie, T e m m . Man. d’Ornith. vol. ii. p. 448.