Show length of life in Pl pigeons geons A writer in the field aves some interesting notes on the duration of it life in certain breeds ot of domestic pigeons such notes are ot of some importance tor for as prof A has remarked referring to the duration of life in birds there is less exact knowledge upon this subject than we might expect considering the existing number of ornithologists and ornithological societies with their numerous publications the examples given by the writer of the above notes are a white trumpeter cock twenty two bearr a blue crop per hen twenty nine years another cropper thirty years of turtle doves there are numerous records of over twenty years while one L 1 said to have reached the age ot of thirty seven years we may compare this aith ith the records for other species of birds given by in the appendix to his essay on oil the duration of life thus canaries in captivity attain an age of from twelve to fifteen years while ravens have lived for almost one hundred parrots are known to have exceeded the one hundred and a golden eagle which di died ed at vienna in 1719 had bad been captured one hundred and four years previously swans are said to have lived three hundred years but this must be bakeri taken as doubtful |