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coverts, light clay-colour : a white mark on each fide under the
eye, and another at the fide of the throat, and juft at the joint of
each wing.
Theie build in trees which have low boughs; and line their
nefts with hair and cotton. At firft fight have greatly the appearance
of a Partridge
t e t r a o id p .
Columba tetfaoides, Scof. ann. i . p. 125. N,J 180.
'Description. L the defcription we have of this bird is, that it equals the
Red-legged Partridge in fize : the head and neck black, en-
compafled with a white margin, as in that bird.
He does not inform us from whence it came, but that it was
then living in a menagery. From the name he has given to it,
we may conclude it to have fomewhat the appearance of the Red-
legged Partridge *.
WHITE-
CROWNED .P.
Columba leucocephala, Lin. Syft. i. p. 281-. N° 14.
Le Pigeon de Roche de la Jamaique, Brif. orn. i. p. 137. N° 33.
Columba minor capite albo, R a ti Syn. p. 63. N° 18. 184. N° 24.
Bald-pated Pigeon, Sloan. Jam. p. 303. t. 261. f. 2 .—Brown Jam. p. 468.
White-crowned Pigeon, Catejb. Car. i. pi. 25.— Arfi. Zool.
Lev. Muf
D escription. y ^EN G T H ten inches and a half. The bill red, with a
white tip : the eyes are furrounded with a white (kin ; the
.irides yellow : the tap of the head is whites beneath it change-
• Perhaps Somewhat allied to the laft.
able
able purple ; the neck is of a green and blue, varied with a glofs
of copper: the upper and under parts of the body are of a blueilh
grey brown: the greater and lefler quills and tail brown: the
legs are red ; the claws grey.
This inhabits Jamaica, St. Domingo, and the Bahama IJlands,
where it breeds in vaft numbers, making its neft among the
rocks. Eats the berries of fweet wood. “ They are bitter or
fweet to the tafte according to the time of year, or rather food
they feed on ; and when they meet with plenty of fweet berries,
are counted very good vi&uals.”
Columba Ieucoptera, Lin. Syji. i. p. 281. N* 15.
Le Pigeon des Indes, Brif. or», i. p. 105. N° 15.
White-winged Dove, Brown. Jam. p. 468.
Brown Indian Dove, Edna. ii. pi. 76.
g I Z E of the Turtle: length eight or nine inches. The bill is
dulky black : a fine blue (kin furrounds the eyes: irides crim-
fon : the forehead, cheeks, fore part of the neck, and bread:, pale
rufous brown : the hind part of the head, and neck, are dullifh
brown : under'the ears, on each fide, is a tranfverfe black dripe,
which does not appear except the bird dretches the neck; under
this mark the feathers have a green gold glofs j and below this,
as well as behind the neck, the glofs changes to violet: the upper
part of the body dark brown, with a mixture of blue in fome
lights : the greater wing coverts the fame, but the outer margins
and tips white : the lower part of the back and rump dull
alh-colonr: the belly, fides thighs, and under tail coverts, blueilh
alh-colour : greater quills black, with paler margins; the lefler
the fame, and fome of them have white edges juft at the tip: the
Place ans
Manners.
6.
WHITEWINGED
p.
Description.