200 PIGEON. 



to fuch a degree, that they are feen {landing on the fhoulders of 

 the rowers, watching for a vacant place where they might fill 

 their crops in turn *, 



I believe this to be fufficiently common in China, and various 

 parts of India, as I have met with drawings of both, it, and the 

 Spotted-necked, from tlience feveraL times. In Sir Jojeph Banks's. 

 colleflion is one from the firfh-named, which feems a trifle larger 

 than our Britijk fpecimens, and the colour much higher,, though, 

 identically the fame in every other particular. 



44, Barred-tail Pigeon, Gen. Syn. iv. p. 650. N*44.. 



BARRED-TAIL Columba Mata, Jacq. Fog. p. 32. pi. 15. 



HIS is frequent at Malacca;, alio in great plenty in the ifland 

 of St. Helena. Jacquin likewife records it. among the birds, 

 inhabiting the neighbourhood Ol Venetzuela, in South America. 



^r. Blue-headed Turtle, G^n. Syn.lv. p. 651. ^045; 



BLUE-HEADED Columba cyanoeephala, Jacq. Fog, p. 36. N° 30. t. ij-. 



* I'HIS is v£ry common in the ifland oi Cuba, where it is caught 

 in traps, and brought into the markets in quantities for eat- 

 ing. It may be kept tame, but will not propagate in that ftatej, 

 having, been tried in an aviary, without efFedt, for. fome time. 



59. Ground Turtle, Getr. Syn. iv. p. 65^9. N° 59. — Jrii. Zool, ii. N° 191s , 



4- GROUND T.. Columba pafferina, J^ry. Fog. p. 32, N''26. 



'T'HIS fpecies is plentiful in all the Caribbee IJlands\ where it is 

 common at every table, being much efteemed. It frequents. 



<* Mm. of Jhe Barou.de Tott.^ 



ftony.- 



