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40. 



La Tourterelle brune de la Chine, Son. Voy. Ind. vol. ii. p. 177. y A ^ j) 



CHINESE T. 

 C I Z E of the Common "Turtle. Bill and irides red : head, neck, Description. 



breaft, and back, dirty brownifh grey, paleft on the bread : 

 on each fide of the neck are fome black feathers, with pale cine- 

 reous grey ends : wings brown, crofted with a band of yellow : 

 quills brown : rump and tail deep cinereous grey : belly and 

 thighs vinous grey : under tail coverts pale cinereous grey : legs 

 red. 



Inhabits China. 



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La Tourterelle, Defer, de Sarin, vol. ii. p. 165. 



Place* 



41. 

 SURINAM T. 



THIS is ten inches in length, and eighteen in breadth. The Description, 



bill is fine and long;, of a deep blue without, and red 

 within : the head and back are afti-colour : throat mixed green 

 and black : the exterior wing feathers brown ; and thofe of the 

 middle afh-colour : the breaft and belly are whitifh : the legs 

 red. 



This is Ferritin's defcriptionj who fpeaks of it as a bird 

 common at Surinam, and fays that it lays twice in a year, making 

 its neft in the woods, diftant from habitations, on the higheft 

 trees : in this imitating our fpecies, to which it bears fome re- 

 femblance, though Imaller by two inches. The flefh, he ob- 

 serves, is juicy, and delicious* 



Place and 



Manners, 



Columba 



