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COLUMBA 7. Media, ventre albido. The white-bellied Dove. 



COLUMBA 8. Purpum-rufefccns, iridi-1 The Mountain Witch, 1\ )unt in 



bus & palpebris coccincis.S Patridge, or Mountain Dove. 



This bird is chiefly an inhabitant of the woods, but not \ ry comm< i in «iny 

 part of Jamaica; it is about the fize of the Pea- Dove, and mottled about the 

 breaft. 



COLUMBA 9. Minor fiibcincrea, pcftore macula oblon- 



gd nigra in/ignito. 



COLUMBA 10. Subj lea minima, maculis ni 



The Bi rbart Dove. 



gns & fcrrugineis ajperfa, 

 ridibus mifcellis. 



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Th e Ground- Dov •• of Cat, 

 t. 20. and of Edw. p. 5. 



AH thefe fpecies, except the firft and ninth, are natives of Jamaica, and reck- 

 oned very rich and delicate meat; elpecially the fecond and third, whi h e\ r I in 

 flavour, and add fometning of a bitter to the I fte. Tho that i ve in the woods are 

 not often uled at inferior tables, being only the pr uce- ojf t e fowlers labours: 

 b it iuch as refort to the lower lands are very comm n in the marki s, b ing ge- 

 nerally taken in large bafkets, and the woik of every negio that pleafes to toil ior 

 them. 



They are all wild, and feed on t:.oft forts of wild grain, particularly the fe Is of 

 the different forts of Croton; but iuch as live in tl : woodo, feci ch jflv on the 

 berries of the Prickly-Pole and Xyloptct on 7 which gives them that delicate bitterifli 

 flavour in the leafon. 





but its legs are much longer and of 



TETA 1. Subrujefcens pec. ;s longior. us rubrh. *l e'tVI >unt ' l-Cock. 



This bird is about the fize of a Pea- Dove : 

 a red colour. The bill is hett:r than half the length of the minute digit, fu it, 

 pretty (lender and conic, a little compreued on both iides, with two oblong 1. 1 

 apertures not f r from the b le. The head, body, and wings are much like thofe 

 of a dove or fmaller pigeon, but there k no wax about :be upper paft t) bill. 

 The tail is (hort, and feems fometning like that or a duck, b t-.a_.li ; '. .: .in 





proportion. The legs rre Ion ;, fcaled, and red; and the digits four, ti f one 



flands behind, and three before: they are pre ty long, fc led, and red, v th fharp 

 flender arched nails. The ;pex of the tongue lacerated. 

 I was favoured with this curious bird by Mrs. IVait u 





TURDUS 1. Niger, ro, palpebrls pedibuf •* '' 'is, 



alis ma. ild oblomd alba in ' £nit 's. 





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The Eiackbird. 





. This bird is a native of Jamaica, and no* uncommon in thee ol r wo i, where 

 it chiedy lives. It differs but little, either in fize or : akc, from the European 

 Blackbird. 



TURDUS 2. Dorfi 



terio 



fubfujeo, pecJcre £? r.rt 



orii s albidis, alls fa ft 



la . ' lb 



The Jamaica or Icffer Mock-bird of Edwards 





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Mock-bird or 



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This certainly excels all other birds both in Cw« iefs of melod 



notes. 



It ii gs often with ex 



', and variety of 



id in its raptures I iave fr ntly oblcryed 



fly upri.zht 'in yaid 



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Savannas, and pout forth their little notes for 



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