RING-TAILED PIGEON. 37 



the Bahama islands ; it resides among the rocks, 

 and is found in great quantities : its principal 

 nourishment consists of the berries of the sweet 

 wood : it is very good food at certain times, when 

 it has been feeding on particular plants, but at 

 others it is very indifferent. 



RING-TAILED PIGEON. 

 (Colutnba Caribaea. ) 



Co. carulescens, capite collo inferiore pectoreque purpurascentibus, 



cauda fascia transvcrsd nigrd, ubdominc albo ; collum cvpreo 



splendent. 

 Blue Pigeon, with the head, neck, and lower part of the breast 



purplish ; the tail with a transverse black band ; the abdomen 



white; the neck of a splendid copper. 

 Columba Caribaea. Gmcl. Syst. Nat. 1. 773. Lath. Ind. Orn. 



a. 603. 36. Vieill. Ois. dc I'Atner. Sept. 4. Temm. Pig. Ind. 



45O. Wils. Amer. Orn. 

 Columba cauda annulo cincta Jamaicensis. Brits. Orn, 1. 



138. 34. 



Columba cauda fascia notata. liaii. Syn. 63. If. p. 183. 22. 

 Pigeon a queue annulce de la Jamaique. Buff. Oil. 2. 539. 

 Colombe a queue annulce. Temm. Pig.Jam. second, pi. 10. Id. 



edit. 8ro. /;. 11-4. 

 King-tailed Pigeon. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 639. 33. Lath. Syn. 



p. 199- 



LENGTH fifteen inches : the head, the under 

 part of the neck, and the breast, of a deep purple ; 

 the superior part of the neck of a changeable 

 green purple, varying in brilliancy according to 



