\ 
a8 TH E NATURAL ‘HISTORY 
The Carolina Pigeon.—The tail is wedge= 
fhaped, and very long 5 it has a blue circle round 
each eye; the feathers on the under Fart, of the 
ody are a-reddifh brown, i 
It inhabits Carolina all the: year, aad feeds on 
berries and feeds. It is a great devourer of. peasy 
for which reafon, and becaufe its fleth i is delicate 
food, great numbers are taken in traps. 
There are fome other {pecies: of Pigeons of this 
as: well as of the former’ divifion, but nothing 
very interefting is known telpeCting their habits ; 
they ‘gre only diftinguifhed by natural hiftoriains 
of the -eaftetenice of their Panes, Bite 



