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able purple : the neck is of a green and blue, varied with a glofs 

 of copper : the upper and under parts of the body are of a blueifti 

 grey brown : the greater and letter quills and tail brown : the 

 legs are red : the claws grey. 



This inhabits Jamaica, St. Domingo, and the Bahama IJlands, 

 where it breeds in vaft numbers, making its neft among the 

 rocks. Eats the berries of fweet wood. "They are bitter or 

 fweet to the tafte according to the time of year, or rather food 

 they feed on ; and when they meet with plenty of fweet ber- 

 ries, are counted very good victuals." 



Columba leucoptera, Lin. Syji. i. p. z8i. N" 15. WHITE- 



Le Pigeon des Indes, Brif. orn. i. p. 105. N° ly. WINGED P. 



White- winged Dove, Brsiv/i. Jam. p. 468, 

 Brown Indian Dove, Ediu. ii. pi. 76. 



C I Z E of the Turtle : length eight or nine inches. The bill is Description. 



dufky black : a fine blue (kin furrounds the eyes : irides crim- 

 fon : the forehead, cheeks, fore part of the neck, and breaft, pale 

 rufous brown : the hind part of the head, and neck, are dullifh 

 brown : under the ears, on each fide, is a tranfverfe black ftripe, 

 which does not appear except the bird ftretches the neck ; under 

 this mark the feathers have a green gold glofs ; and below this, 

 as well as behind the neck, the glofs changes to violet : the upper 

 part of the body dark brown, with a mixture of blue in fome 

 lights : the greater wing coverts the fame, but the outer mar- 

 gins and tips white : the lower part of the back and rump dull 

 afh-colonr : the belly, fides thighs, and under tail coverts, blueifti 

 afh-colour : greater quills black, with paler margins ; the letter 

 the fame, and fome of them have white edges jufl at the tip : the 

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