326 CAROLINA F I G E O K. 



" Some years paft they have not been in fuch plenty as they ufed 

 " to be. This fpring I faw them fly one morning, as I thought 

 " in crreat abundance ; but every body was amazed how few there 

 " were j and wondered at the reafon, 



" I mufl: remark one very fingular fa£t: that, notwithftanding the 

 *' whole people of a town go out a pigeoning, as they call it, they 

 " will not on fome days kill a fingle hen bird ; and on the very 

 *' next day, not a fingle cock (and yet both fexes always fly 

 " weflierly) ; and when this is the cafe, the people are always aflured 

 " that there will be great plenty of them that feafon. I have been 

 *' at Niagara when the centinel has given the word that the 

 " Pigeons v/ere flying; and the whole garrifon were ready to run over 

 *' one another, fo eager were they to get frefh meat." 



CAaonNft-. ficacuroba, Marcgrave, 204. 



Turtle Dove, Laixifon, 142. — Dii Pratz, li. 88* 



La Tourterelle de la C«/-o//«f, BriJ/hn, i. 110. 



Turtle of Carolina, Calejby, i. z^.—De Buffoni ii, SST.—PL Enl. I7S» 



Columba Carolinenfis, Lin. Syji. 286. 



Long-tailed Dove, Ediu. 15.— Lev. Mus. — Bl. Mus. 



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With the orbits naked and blue : crown, neck, back, and 

 fcapulars, brown 5 the laft fpotted with black : fome of the 

 lefler coverts of a lead-color: quil feathers dufky: beneath each 

 f-ye in the male a black fpot ; on each fide of the neck another, 

 variable, with green, gold, and crimfon : breaft of a pale claret- 

 color : belly and thighs of a dull yellow : tail very long and cunei- 

 form J the two middle feathers brown 5 the others white, marked 

 in the middle with a black fpot. Length fourteen inches. 



Inhabits Carolina the whole year} and is found as far fouth as the 

 Weft Indies and Brafil. Feeds much on the berries of the poke or 

 Phytolaaa Decandria *, and the feeds of the mug- apple or Podo^hyl- 



• Phytolacca Decandria, Z/». 5/. i*;. 631. 



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