FAMILY XV. 
COL XJMBINI, Illiger. 
GENUS XXXVI. —COL C'MAj, LiNXJiUS. 
SUDGENUS I. COLC’MJIJ, STEFHEKS. 
187 . COLUMBA CAllOLI?fEjySIS, WILSON. 
CAROLINA PIGEON, OR TURTLE DOVE. 
WILSON, PLATE XLIII. FIG. 1 . —EDINBURGH COLLEGE .MUSEUM. 
This is a favourite bird with all those vvho lov® 
wander among our woods in spring, and listen to th® 
varied harmony. They will there hear many a singij'^ 
and sprightly performer ; but none so mournful as tm 
The hopeless wo of settled sorrow, swelling the hi.’» 
of female innocence itself, could not assume tones i®®. ^ 
sad, more tender and aft’ecting. Its notes ai’e four J ] 
first is somewhat the highest, and preparatory, see®J' *, 
to be uttered with an inspiration of the breath,_as if 
afflicted creature were just recovering its voice ft®. 
the last convulsive sohs of distress ; this is followed 
three long, deep, and mournful meanings, that no 
of sensibility can listen to without sympathy. A p® j 
of a few minutes ensues, and again the solemn 
sorrow is renewed as before. This is generally 
in the deepest shaded parts of the woods, frequen 
about noon and towards the evening. _ .j; 
There is, however, nothing of real distress in all t 'jjy 
ipiite the reverse. The bird who utters it wantons 
the side of his beloved partner, or invites her by 
call to some favourite retired and shady retreat. * 
the voice of love, of faithful connubial affection, 
which the n'hole family of doves are so celebrs 
.and, among them all, none more deservingly so than 
species now before us. 
