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CAROLINA PIGEON, 



houses, and in New England they capture them in 

 numbers of an evening, knocking them down with 

 sticks from their roosts, which is easily accom- 

 plished, as they are generally fatigued. In Loui- 

 siana they catch them by taking a flat vessel, and 

 placing some sulphur in it, set it alight under the 

 trees upon which the birds roost ; the smoke from 

 this so stupifies them that they fall down from 

 their resting-place, and then the hunters have 

 nothing to do but pack them up in bags brought 

 for the purpose, as quickly as possible : they form 

 a great portion of the food of the common people 

 of the countries they inhabit. In some parts they 

 are called Wood Pigeons. 



CAROLINA PIGEON. 



(Columba Carolinensis.) 



Co. corpore riifo-cinereo subtus cinereo'alboj rectricibus cinereisy 

 apice albis, media macula nigra, in utraque ala maculis qui' 

 busdam nigris. Mas. pectore violaceo-aureo splendente, macula 

 aurea ad aures. 



Pigeon with a rufo-ash body, beneath whitish-ash ; the tail- 

 feathers cinereous, with the tip white, and spot in the middle 

 black 3 in both wings several black spots. Male, with the 

 breast of a splendid golden-violet, and a golden- tinted spot 

 near the ears. 



Columba Carolinensis. Linn, Syst. Nat. 1. 2S6. 37. — Gtnel. ' 

 Syst, Nat, 1. 789- 37.—Briss, Orn. 1. 110. 18. t, S. f. 1. 



