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W A A L I A. 



*T^HIS pigeon, called Waalia, frequents the low parts of* 

 •*• Abyflinia, where it perches upon the higheft trees, and 

 fits quietly in the fhade during the heat of the day, fo that 

 it is difficult to difcover it, unlefs it has been feen to 

 alight. They likewife fly extremely high, in great flocks, 

 and for the moft part affect a.fpecies of the beech-tree, upon 

 the mall or fruit of which they feem chiefly to live for food. 

 They are rarely feen in the mountainous part of the coun- 

 try unlefs in their paflage, for in the beginning of the 

 rainy feafon, in the Kolla, they emigrate to the fouth and 

 S. W. In this direction they are feen flying for days to- 

 gether. It is fuppofed the high country, even in the fair 

 feafon, is too cold for them ; and their feeking another habi- 

 tation towards the Atlantic Ocean, where it is warm, and 

 where the rains do not fall fo copioufly in that feafon as 

 they do in the Kolla in Abyflinia, makes this conjecture Hill 

 more probable. 



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