CAROLINA DOVE. S55 



a large crop : its length is 2| inches ; its breadth varying from 2| 

 twelfths to 1^ twelfth ; its rings 105, feeble ; the last ring large, formed 

 laterally of two rings, with an intervening membrane. Bronchi of 

 about 15 half rings, and narrow. The lateral muscles strong, as are 

 the sterno-tracheal, which come off at the distance of ^ inch. There 

 is a single pair of inferior laryngeal muscles going to the upper edge 

 of the last tracheal ring. 



CAROLINA DOVE. 



COLUMBA CAROLINENSIS, LiNN. 

 PLATE XVII. Vol. I. p. 91. 



This species does not extend very far eastward or northward. It 

 is exceedingly rare in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, and none 

 were seen by my party in Newfoundland or Labrador. Dr Richard- 

 son makes no mention of it as having been observed in the Fur 

 Countries. Yet it was met with on the shores of the Columbia River 

 by Dr Townsenu, who informs me, that although Columha migratoria 

 is found on the Rocky Mountains, G. carolinensis and C. fasciata are 

 the only species which he observed on the Columbia. On the other 

 hand, I found the present species abundant in the Texas, where it 

 was breeding on the ground, as well as on low bushes, and feeding on 

 blackberries late in the month of April. 



The Carolina Dove breeds in aviaries, even although caught when 

 old, raising several broods in the season, insomuch that my friends 

 Dr Bachman and Dr Samuel Wilson of Charleston, have had to kill 

 the yoimg for the table. The former intimates to me that a male was 

 put into a cage with a female European Turtle Dove, on which they 

 paired, formed a nest, and laid eggs, but the cage having accidentally 

 fallen, the eggs, which now contained young, were broken, and the 

 Carolina Dove escaped. The same friend has found this species 

 breeding on the ground in the States of New York and South Caro- 

 lina, among tall wheat and rye. In the latter t-ountry it is very numerous 



