RING-TAILED PIGEON. 



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the Bahama islands ; it resides among the rocks, 

 and is found in great quantities : its principal 

 nourishment consists of the berries of the sweet 

 wood : it is very good food at certain times, when 

 it has been feeding on particular plants, but at 

 others it is very indifferent. 



RING-TAILED PIGEON. 

 (Columba Caribaea.) 



Co. ccerulescens, capite collo mferiore pectoreque purpurascentibus, 

 Cauda fascia transversa nigra, abdomine albo ; collum cupreo 

 splendens. 



Blue Pigeon, with the head, neck, and lower part of the breast 



purplish ; the tail with a transverse black band ; the abdomen 



white; the neck of a splendid copper. 

 Columba Caribaea, GmeL Syst. Nat. 1. 77^- — Lath. Ind. Orn, 



2. 603. 36. — VieilL Ois. de VAmer, Sept. 4. — Temm. Pig, Ind. 



450. — Wils. Amer. Orn. 

 Columba cauda annulo cincta Jamaicensis. Briss, Orn, 1. 



138. 34. 



Columba cauda fascia notata. Raii. Syn. 63. 17» p« 183. 22. 

 Pigeon a queue annulee de la Jamaique. Buff. Ois, 2. 539. 

 Colombe a queue annulee. Temm. Fig. fam. second, pi. 10. — Id. 



edit. Svo. p. 114. 

 Ring-tailed Pigeon. Lath. Gen, Syn. 4. 689. 33. — Lath, Syn, 



P- 199. 



Length fifteen inches : the head, the under 

 part of the neck, and the breast, of a deep purple ; 

 the superior part of the neck of a changeable 

 green purple, varying in brilliancy according to 



