WHITE-CROWNED, AND CANADA PIGEON. 327 



Ism Pehatum *. Law/on fays, it is a great devourer of peas ; on 

 ■which account the Americans catch as many as they can in traps ; 

 and as an additional reafon, becaufe of the delicacy of their. 



White-crowned Pigeon, Catejhy, i. at;,. iSg. White- 



Bald-pate, Brown, Jam. i,e%.— Shane, ii. 303; crownId. 



Le Pigeon de la Roche, de la Jamaique, Brijfou, I.. 137.— i)^ Biiffbn, ii. 529. 

 Columba Leucocephala, Lin. Syji. 281.. 



"P With the end of the bill white; the bafe purple : crown 

 white, beneath that purple:, hind part of the neck changeable- 

 green, edged with black. 



Inhabit the Bahama iHandSi and breed among the rocks ; and' Place. 



prove of great ufe to the inhabitants, who take vaft numbers. This 

 fpecies is found alfo in Jamaica^ where Brown, fays they feed on the 

 feeds of the mangrove and wild coffee. 



I do not recolleft that our navigators faw any Pigeons on the 

 weftern fide qx: America; but the 5j)a«i«rij faw abundance in lat. 41. 7.. 

 north % 



La Tourterelle de Ca»ai^a, B'rijfon, 1. iiS.—De Bujon, ii. 552. ^i^. Ea!. 176.. 190. Canada. 

 Columba Canadeniis, Lin. Syji. 285.. 



"p With the crown, hind part of the head, and upper part of the 

 back, of a cinereous brown : the lower part of the back and rump 

 afh-colored : lower part of the neck and the breaft cinereous, dafhed 

 with ruft : coverts of the wings fpotted with black: primaries dufky, . 

 the exterior edges of the greater yellowifh : the tail long and cu- 

 neiform ; the middle feathers afli-colored ; the exterior on each 

 fide white,, marked on their inner fide, with a red fpot, and beneath 

 tliat with a great black one. 



The head, neck, .back, breaft, and coverts of the wingSj of the: 

 female have the feathers terminated with dirty white and yellow.. 



*- lin. Sp. PL 723. . f ' In Rarringtori's MlfcsUanies, 492. . 



3^; Inhabits- 



