Duo enim genera earum in peristerotrophio esse solent: unum agreste, ut alii dicunt, saxatile, quod habetur in turribus ac columinibus villae, a quo appellatae columbae, quae propter timorem naturalem summa loca in tectis captant; quo fit ut agrestes maxime sequantur turres, in quas ex agro evolant suapte sponte ac remeant.
For in a dove-cote there are usually two species of these: one is the wild, or as some call them, the rock-pigeon, which lives in turrets and gable-ends (columina) of the farmhousewhence the name columbaeand these, because of their natural shyness, hunt for the highest peak of the roof; hence the wild pigeons chiefly hunt for the turrets, flying into them from the fields and back again, as the fancy takes them.