. Arctic zoology [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. JftI GROUND PIGEON. Place. 191. Grovnd. Size. PtACI* Inhabits Canada. Greatly rcfemblcs, in fizc, form, and fomc of the colors, the Carolina Pigeon: I guefs therefore, that it is here needlefsly feparated from that fpecies. Picuipinima, Marcgrmvi, 20\,—Raii Sjn. Av, 61, 184.—5/mw. yam. ii> 305. —Brotvut '\6g» Ground Dove, Cairjiy, i. 26. La petite Tourteretle, Brifon, i. 113. Columba Paflerina, Lin. Syft, 28;. Le Cocotzin, FirnandtK, z^.—Di Buffen, ii. 5J9.—P/. £(•/. 843. p> With a yellow bill tipt with black: red irides : upper part of the h
. Arctic zoology [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. JftI GROUND PIGEON. Place. 191. Grovnd. Size. PtACI* Inhabits Canada. Greatly rcfemblcs, in fizc, form, and fomc of the colors, the Carolina Pigeon: I guefs therefore, that it is here needlefsly feparated from that fpecies. Picuipinima, Marcgrmvi, 20\,—Raii Sjn. Av, 61, 184.—5/mw. yam. ii> 305. —Brotvut '\6g» Ground Dove, Cairjiy, i. 26. La petite Tourteretle, Brifon, i. 113. Columba Paflerina, Lin. Syft, 28;. Le Cocotzin, FirnandtK, z^.—Di Buffen, ii. 5J9.—P/. £(•/. 843. p> With a yellow bill tipt with black: red irides : upper part of the head, body, and coverts, of a cinereous brown j the covt:rts fpotted with black: bread and belly a variable purple, fpotted with a deeper: the two middle feathers of the tail cinereous brown, thofe of the fides du(ky: legs yellowifh. In Size does not exceed a Lark. This diminutive fpecies is not found further north than Carolina^ where they fometimes vifit the lower parts near the fea, where Ihrubs grow, in order to feed on the berries j efpeciallyofthepellitory,ortooth- ach tree *, which gives their flefh a fine flavor. The fpecies is con- tinued through the warm parts of America, the iflands Mexico and Sra^l. The French iflanders call them Orfolans, from their cxcef- five fatnefs and great delicacy. They take them young, when they will become very ^HERE is not a fingle fpecies of Pigeon to be found in Kamtf- chatka-, a proof that the birds of this genus do not extend far to the north-weft of America: otherwife the narrow fea between the two continents could never confine birds of fo fwift and ftrong a flight. ' Xanthoxylum Clava Herculis, Lin. Sp. PL 1455.—Caiijhj, i, 26. 5 The. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Pennant, Thomas, 1726-1798. London : Printed by Henry Hughe
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