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The chief food of this fpecies is acorns, and mafi of all kinds } 

 but they will alfo deftroy corn and rice, if they come in the way 

 of them . 



€olumba Carolinenfis, Lin. SjJ}. 1. p. 2S6. N° 37* 



La Tourterelie de la Caroline, Brif. orn, i. p. no. N° 18. pi. 8. ft i.~= 



PL enl. 175. (the female ?) 

 La Tourte, Buf. si/, ii. p. 557. 

 Turtle of Carolina, Catefi. Car. i. pi. 24. 

 Carolina Pigeon, Ar&, Zool, 



'HIS is & trifle bigger than our Common Turtle: in length 

 ten inches and a half. The bill is eight lines long> and of a 

 blackifh colour • the eyes are furrounded with a bare blue fkin : 

 the irides are black : the forehead* fore part of the neck, and 

 breaft, incline to reddifh, with a green gold and violet glofs on 

 the laft : the hind part of the head and neck are of a brownifh 

 afh-colour i the back, rump 5 and upper tail and wing coverts 

 nearer!: the body, the fame 3 but irregularly mixed with rufous j 

 the reft of the wing coverts afh-brown : belly, fides, thighs, and 

 under tail coverts, inclining to rufous : on each wing, near the 

 tip of the greater coverts, are a few black fpots t quills black- 

 ifh afh-colour, with whitifh edges i- tail feathers unequal j the 

 two middle ones are four inches and a half in length; the outer 

 ones very fliort 5 the two middle ones are wholly of afh-coloured 

 brown j the next two on each fide are afh-coloured, marked with 

 black in the middle j and the others are of a light afh-colour, 



eblige them to fall to the ground 5 when no more remains than to fill the facks 

 they have brought with them for that purpofe. In this they are often accom- 

 panied by the ladies, who efteem it an agreeable evening's amufement. — Hifi.- 

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62. 

 CAROLINA P. 



Description. 



