PIGEON. 99 



Inhabits Canada, and as it resembles in many things the IVli- 

 gratory Pigeon, may possibly be a Variety of that bird, if not 

 specifically different. M. Tern mi nek thinks it to be the female of 

 the Migratory. 



124— CAROLINA PIGEON. 



Columba Carolinensis, hid. Orn. ii. C13. Lin. i. 286. Gm. Lin. i. 789. 



Turtur Caroliniensis, Bris.'u 110. t. 8. f. 1. Id. Svo. i. 27. Vieill. Am. iv. pi. 



Pieacuroba, Will. 134. Klein, 119. 



Tourte, Tourterelle de la Caroline, BuJ. ii. 557. PI. enl. 175. — female. Temm. Pig. 



Jol. pi. 50. Id. Svo. i. p. 355. Seligm. Vog. i. pi. 48. — male. 

 Carolina Pigeon, Gen. Syn. iv. 663. Arct. Zool. ii. 188. pi. 14. Gates. Gar. i. pi. 24. 

 Bartr. Trav. 288. Amer. Orn. v. p. 91. pi. 43. f. 1. 



LENGTH ten inches and a half, or more ; breadth eighteen. Bill 

 blackish ; eyes in a bare bluish skin ; irides black; the forehead, neck 

 before, and breast, reddish, glossed with green gold and violet; the 

 rest of the under parts pale rufous ; hind part of the head and neck 

 brownish ash-colour ; back, wing coverts nearest the body, rump, 

 and upper tail coverts, ash-colour, mixed with rufous ; the rest of 

 the wing coverts cinereous brown ; on each wing, near the tips of the 

 greater coverts, a few black spots ; quills blackish ash-colour, with 

 whitish edges; tail cuneiform, consisting of fourteen feathers, length 

 five inches, the outer one little more than two, the two middle ones 

 ash-coloured brown ; the two next ash-colour, marked with black in 

 the middle, the others light ash-colour, with the ends whitish, and 

 a black spot between the two colours; beneath, the two middle 

 feathers the same as above, but the end half white ; legs red. 



The female wants the gloss on the breast, otherwise the same as 

 the male. 



Inhabits Carolina, Brazil, St. Domingo, &c. ; found in the first 

 the whole year : met with also in Georgia ; it builds there in trees, 



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