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Identifier: arcticzoology217851787penn (find matches)
Title: Arctic zoology ..
Year: 1784 (1780s)
Authors: Pennant, Thomas, 1726-1798 Brown, P., ill Cordiner, Charles, 1746?-1794, ill Griffith, Moses, 1747-1819, ill Low, G., ill Paillore, P., ill Stubbs, George, 1724-1806, ill Maxell, Peter, engraver Mearns, Edgar Alexander, 1856-1916, former owner. DSI Dwight, Jonathan, 1858-1929, former owner. DSI Tucker, Marcia Brady, former owner. DSI Blackwell, Lambert, Sir, 1732-1801, former owner. DSI
Subjects: Zoology Zoology Birds Birds Animals
Publisher: London : Printed by Henry Hughs
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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and is found as far fouth as theWeft Indies and Brafil. Feeds much on the berries of the poke orPhytolaaa Decandria *, and the feeds of the mug-apple or Podo^hyl- • Phytolacca Decandria, Z/». 5/. i*;. 631. ium XIV 326
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l-e? C/^a£072yJV!il9/. WHITE-CROWNED, AND CANADA PIGEON. 327 Ism Pehatum *. Law/on fays, it is a great devourer of peas; on■which account the Americans catch as many as they can in traps;and as an additional reafon, becaufe of the delicacy of their. White-crowned Pigeon, Catejhy, i. at;,. iSg. White- Bald-pate, Brown, Jam. i,e%.—Shane, ii. 303; crownId. Le Pigeon de la Roche, de la Jamaique, Brijfou, I.. 137.—i)^ Biiffbn, ii. 529.Columba Leucocephala, Lin. Syji. 281.. P With the end of the bill white; the bafe purple: crownwhite, beneath that purple:, hind part of the neck changeable-green, edged with black. Inhabit the Bahama iHandSi and breed among the rocks ; and Place. prove of great ufe to the inhabitants, who take vaft numbers. Thisfpecies is found alfo in Jamaica^ where Brown, fays they feed on thefeeds of the mangrove and wild coffee. I do not recolleft that our navigators faw any Pigeons on theweftern fide qx: America; but the 5j)a«i«rij faw abundance in lat. 41. 7..

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