it is poflible that this may have been brought from that place * ;
however this may be, it ferves to Ihew that neither this nor the
former are confined to the European regions.
40. La Tourterelle de Portugal, Rrif. or4. i. p. 98. N° 9.— Euf. oif. ii. p. 556.
PORTUGAL T . Portugal Dove* P'' +SD
e s c r i p t i o n . r j " ' H I S is bigger than our Turtle. T he bill is black : irides
faffron-colour : the whole o f the bird is o f a deep brown :
on each fide the neck, about the middle, are two or three
fhining black feathers tipped with w hite: the leffer wing coverts
are black, edged with w hite; the' others brown, edged with yellow
j the quills blackifh, with yellow edges; the two middle tail
feathers are deep afh, tipped with white 5 the others white on the
outer edges and tips, and afh-coloured within : the legs are redr
the claws black.
Place. Inhabits Portugal.
V ar! ' c . La Tourterelle grife de l ’lfle de Lufoti, So». Voy. p. 52. t. 22.
LUZOIMAN T.
D e s c r i p t i o n C I Z E of a Turtle. Bill and irides the colour of carmine t
^ head and neck light grey alh-colour : on each fide of the neck
fix or feven of the feathers are tipped with black: the breaft
and belly vinaceous grey: quills black; the fecondaries are the
fame, but the ends have a brownilh yellow tinge: the two middle
feathers of the tail black; the others white: the legs reddilh.
Place. Inhabits Manilla.
* And this I am the rather confirmed in, from obferving it in two feparate
collections of Cbine/e drawings, in which it was well exprefled. The name given
to it in China is Pancou.
4°»
La Tourterelle brune de la Chine, Son. Voy. bid. voL u. p* 177* V ar D.
C H IN E S E T .
Cj I Z E o f the Common T u r t le . Bill and irides red : head, neck, D e s c r i p t i o n .
^ breaft, and back, dirty brownilh grey, paleft on the breaft :
on each fide o f the neck are fome black feathers, with pale cinereous
grey ends : wings brown, crofifed with a band of yellow :
quills brown: rump and tail deep cinereous grey: belly and
thighs vinous grey: under tail coverts pale cinereous grey : legs
red.
Inhabits C h in a . Place.
4>-
La Tourterelle, Defer, de Burin, vol. ii. p. 165. SURINAM T .
r p H I S is ten inches in length, and eighteen in breadth. T he D e s c r i p t i o n .
bill is fine and long; of a deep blue without, and red
within : the head and back are alh-colour : throat mixed green
and black: the exterior wing feathers brown ; and thofe o f the
middle alh-colour: the breaft and belly are whitilh : the legs
red.T
his is T e rm in '% defeription; who fpeaks of it as a bird Place ^ano
common at S ur in am , and fays that it lays twice in a year, making
its neft in the woods, diftant from habitations, on the higheft'
trees : in this imitating our fpecies, to which it bears fome re-
femblance, though fmaller by two inches. T he flelh, he ob-
ferves, is juicy, and delicious.