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ier-pigeons is very ancient. On a temple-wall in Egypt there is a sculpture of the time of Rameses II. （1297 B. C.), representing that monarch proceeding in regal state to assume the crown of Upper and Lower Egypt; and in the procession a priest is seen releasing from a basket four carrier-pigeons, to announce the tidings to distant points. Ovid relates that Taurosthenes announced to his father in Aegeria, by a pigeon stained purple, that he had obtained the prize at the Olympic games. Brutus used pigeons for communicating with the inhabitants of Modena, during its siege by Mare Antony. When Ptolemais in Syria was invested by the French and Venetians, and was about to surrender, a carrierpigeon, bearing a message from the Sultan, was captured; the missive containing promises of assistance was removed, and one substituted in which the Sultan expressed no hope of being able to assist them. The surrender was immediate. Pigeons were of great use to the Dutch during the siege of L