50 PIGEON. 



blue, glossed with copper; body above and beneath bluish grey 

 brown ; quills and tail brown ; the wings reach about two-thirds on 

 the tail ; legs and claws red. 



Inhabits Jamaica, St. Domingo, and the Bahama Islands, where 

 it breeds in vast numbers, making the nest among the rocks ; feeds 

 on the berries of the sweet wood : as to the flesh, it is said to be 

 bitter, or pleasant, according to the time of year, and most probably 

 owing to the food ; for when the bird meets with plenty of sweet 

 berries, it is accounted excellent. 



64.— COMMON TURTLE. 



Colnmba Turtur, Lid. Orn. ii. 605. Lin. i. 284. Gm. Lin. i. 786. Scop. i. No. 181. 



Kram. 359. 3. Frisch, t. 140. Georgi, 173. Faun. Arag. p. 88, Faun. Arab. 



p. 4. 14. Sepp, Fog. t. p. 11. Borowsk. iii. 212. t. 75. B. Rati, 61. A. 2. Will. 



134. t. 35. Id. Engl. 1S3. Bris. i. 92. Id, 8vo. i. 21. Gerin. iii. 289. & 288 ? 



Tern. Man. d'Orn. 280. Ed. Ed. ii. p. 448. Lin. Trans, xiii. 318. 

 Turtur auritus, Raii, 184.26. Sloan. Jam. 304. t. 262. 2? 

 Palumbus Turtur, Klein, 119. 12. Id. Stem. 27. t. 29. f. 3. a. b. Id. Ov. 33. t. 16. 



f. 3. 8. Roman. Orn. i. 89. t. 15. 1. Id. p. 94. White— Faun. Helvet. 

 Turteltaube, Naturf. xvii. 76. Bechst. Deut. iii. p. 1076. 

 Tourterelle, Buf. ii. 545. t. 25. PL enl. 394. Temm. Pig.fol. pi. 42. Id. 8vo. i. 



p. 305. 

 Tortora, Zinnan. Uov. 33. t. 4. f. 15. Olin. tie. t. p. 34. Cett. Uc. Sard. 143. 

 Common Turtle, Gen. Syn. iv. 644. Id. Sup. 199. Br. Zool. ii. 103. pi. 45. Id.fol. 



89. pi. O. 1. Id. 1812. i. 394. pi. 49. Osb. Voy. i. 158. Hayes's Birds, pi. 14. 



Bewick, i. pi. p. 272. Lewin, iv. pi. 130. Walcot, ii. t. 188, Pult. Dorset, p. 



7. Orn. Diet. 



LENGTH twelve inches, weight six ounces. Bill brown ; irides 

 yellow ; eye in a crimson skin ; top of the head cinereous olive ; fore- 

 head and chin nearly white; on each side of the neck a patch of 

 black feathers, with white tips; the back ash-coloured, the feathers 

 margined with reddish brown ; scapulars and wing coverts much 

 the same, but the feathers black in the middle; quills brown, with 

 pale edges and tips; fore part of the neck vinaceous; lower part of 



