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times found in Carolina. Willughby fays it is very common at 

 Mexico, where it inhabits mountainous places, and is thought 

 excellent eating. Bancroft * obferves, that this is the only Dove 

 met with in Guiana. It is alfo common in Jamaka ; where 

 Sloane mentions that " they feed on the ground as Partridges, and 

 fpring as they do ; rifing and flying for a fhort flight, and then 

 light again on the ground. They are very often many toge- 

 ther ■, very good meat ; very common in all the plains of the 

 ifland; and feed on the grains and feeds of vegetables. 



They are taken, in clavanies, or traps, made of reeds, baited, 

 with the feeds of that Ricinus called here Wild Cajfada. 



yo, Columba minuta, Lin. Syfi. i. p. 285. N° 35-. 



Var. A. La petite Tourterelle brune d'Amerique, Brif. orn. i. p. 117. N* 20. pi. 8i 



PASSERINE T. i. 2 . 



Tlapalcocotli, Will. orn. p. 184. 



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Description. HP H I S is ftill lefs than the laft, being only five inches and a« 

 half in length. The upper parts of the body are brown : the 

 under parts more or lefs rufous white : wing coverts rufous brown,, 

 with feven fmall fpots of the colour of polifhed fteel ; three being 

 ©n the lefier, and four on the greater wing coverts : the quills as 

 in the laft fpecies : the two middle tail feathers are brown ; the 

 others afb-coloured at the bafe, then black, with brown tips ■, 

 befides which the two outer ones have the outer webs towards., 

 the tips white : the bill and legs are brown. 

 Place. Inhabits St. Domingo ; and is probably a variety of the laft. 



* Hijl. of Guiana-. 



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