§64 JAM 



Pigeon W^oodj 



Bread-nut Zebra Wood, or Rain 



bow Wood, 

 Brafiletto, 

 Fuftic, 

 Bitter-wood, 

 Yellow Sanders, 

 Cafliaw, 



306 

 Branched Horfe-tail. 



A I C A. 



Callbafh, 

 Sea-fide Grape, 

 Maiden Pliunb, 

 Manchineel, 

 Mountain Guava, 

 Lignum Vitae, 

 Ebonv. 



Reed for Polishing. 



307. Birds and Fowls in common Uk for Food. 



Ortolan, or Butter Bird[r], 

 Snipe fmaller. 

 Ditto larger grey [j], 

 VVhlftling Duck, 



Thefe are birds of pafilage, and 

 make their appearance everv year 

 about the beginning of October, in 

 prodigious flocks. But the wild 



ducks, teal, and k-fler fuipe, breed , Spanifti Main Duck, 

 in the ifland, and are found during American Wood-duck, and (e- 

 the whole year ; though not in fo 

 great abundance as about the feafon 

 of the autumnal rains. 



Thefe, as well as the preceding, 

 are by the fportfmen efteemed game. 



vera! varieties. 

 Teal [/], 

 Plover, 

 Wild Goofe. 

 "Ring-tailed Pigeon [?/], 

 Mountain Pigeon, 

 Bald Pate [iv], 

 i White-winged Dove, 

 Pea-dove, 



White-bellied Dove [.v]. 

 Mountain Witch, 



[r] Thefe are tlie rice birds of South Cnrolina. They grow exceedingly fat in Jamaica, m tis • 

 featon, and are ellcenicd by connolllcurs not interior to the true ortolan. 



[.(] Thefe aie f<jmcwhat larger than the Engfifii, and generally very fat. 



[/] The duck iuid teal, on their firft arrival, have a fifliy talle; but after being feme time in the 

 country, they grow exceedingly fat and delicicus. 



[«] This is cllecmcd one of the i)ri])cipal dainties by the Epicures of the ifland; it is often ib 

 turgid with fat, as to burft on falling to the ground after it is fliot. 



[iv] In the feafon they are fat and well-tafted, but afterwards their flcHi acquires the bitternefs of 

 gall, and is not eatable; this is afcribed to their feeding on the feeds of the red mangrove 

 £.rj 'I his has much the flavour of the EMglilh partridge. 



Thefe, 



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