2-6 TH E NATURAL HISTORY 
The Carolina Pigeon—The tail is wedge- 
Ihaped, and very long ; it has a blue circle round 
each eye j the feathers on the under part of the 
fcodv arc a reddifh brown.. 
It inhabits Carolina all the year, and feeds on 
berries and feeds. It is a great devourcr of peas, 
for which rcafon, and becaufe its flelh is delicate 
food, great numbers axe taken in traps. 
There are fome other fpecies of Pigeons of this 
as well as of the former divifion, but nothing 
very interefling is known refpefting their habits ; 
they are only diftinguifhed by natural hiftorians 
by the difference of their plumage, &c. 
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