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THE CAROLINA TURTLE-DOVE. 
Feet carmine-purple ; claws dusky. Crown of the head, and upper part of 
the neck, bright greenish-blue ; the rest of the 'upper parts, including the 
wing-coverts, light yellowish brown, tinged with light blue, of which colour 
are the edges of the wings, and the outer webs of the quills towards the 
base. Some of the proximal wing-coverts spotted with black. Forehead 
and sides of the head brownish-yellow, which colour predominates on the 
under parts, the breast and neck tinged with blue, and the abdomen and 
under tail-coverts paler. Quills dusky, margined externally with whitish, 
the last secondaries light brown and spotted with black. The two middle 
tail-feathers, and the outer webs of the next five on each side like the back ; 
all the feathers, excepting the middle ones, have a spot of black about an 
inch from their extremity, the space between which and the base is bright 
greenish-blue, that beyond it being paler and tinged with brown, excepting 
in the three outer feathers, where it is white, as is the outer web of the 
outermost. 
Length 12 inches, extent of wings 17 ; bill along the ridge 7 v, along the 
gap f . 
Adult Female 
The female is somewhat duller in the tints of the plumage ; the bright 
blue of the head is wanting, that part being coloured like the back ; the neck 
and breast have less blue, and the white of the tail is less pure. 
Length 11 inches, extent of wings 151 ; bill as in the male. 
The White-flowered Stuartia. 
Stuartia Malacodendron, Willd. Sp. PI., vol. iii. p. 840. — Stuartia vtrginica, 
Pursh , FI. Ainer., vol. ii. p. 451.— Monadelphia Polyandria, Linn. 
A small tree, with smooth spreading branches ; ovate-acute leaves, gene- 
rally entire at the margins ; axillar flowers, which are solitary, or two 
together ; large white corollas, of five rounded petals, and reddish-purple 
stamina. The leaves vary in being sometimes serrated, and more or less 
downy. It flowers from June to September. 
