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Place. Inhabits Canada. Greatly refemblesj in fize, form, and fome of 



the colors, the Carolina Pigeon : I guefs therefore, that it is here 

 needlefsly feparated from that fpecies. 



191. Ground. Picuipinima, Marcgrave, 2o\s— Rait Sjtt. Av. 6z. 18^.'— SIoafK, Jam. ii. 305, 



—Broiun, 469. 

 Ground Dove, Calejby, i. 26. 

 La petite Tourterelle, BriJJon, i. 113. 

 Columba Fafferina, Lin. Syji. 285. 

 Le Cocotzin, Fernandez., 24. — De Buffon, ii. 559.' — PA Enl. 243. 



With a yellow bill tipt with black : red irides : upper part of 

 * the head, body, and coverts, of a cinereous brown ; the coverts 

 fpotted with black : breaft and belly a variable purple, fpotted with 

 a deeper: the two middle feathers of the tail cinereous brown, thofc 

 Size. of the fides dufky : legs yellowifli. In Size does not exceed a Lark. 



Place. This diminutive fpecies is not found further north than Carolina, 



where they fometimes vifit the lower parts near the fea, where fhrubs 

 grow, in order to feed on the berries; efpeciallyofthepeUitory,or tooth- 

 ach tree *, which gives their fiefh a fine flavor. The fpecies is con- 

 tinued through the warm parts of America^ the iflands Mexico and 

 Braftl. The French iflanders call them Ortolans, from their excef- 

 five fatnefs and great delicacy. They take them young, when they 

 will become very tame. 



P. 



npHERE is not a fingle fpecies of Pigeon to be found in Kamtf- 



chatka; a proof that the birds of this genus do not extend far 



to the north-weft of America : otherwife the narrow fea between the 



two continents could never confine birds of fo fwift and ftrong a 



flight. ' 



* Xanthoxylum Clava Herculis, Lia. S/>. PI. 1455.— C«/^, i. 26. 



S The 



