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from a specimen of any of those he brought home from his hunt. 

 On the other hand, if they failed to be those of a male Wild Pigeon 

 (Ecto pistes migratorius), he was to pay me fifty dollars. That put 

 a quietus on his boasting, and I subsequently learned from another 

 party that the birds he saw were the wild Band-tailed Pigeon — a 



Fig. 5. The Mourning Dove; adult female. Captive specimen. Photo 

 1 iv the author. Reduced. 



not uncommon bird at this time in some parts of California. On 

 the whole, however, the bird which has most frequently been mis- 

 taken for the extinct Wild Pigeon is our well-known Mourning 

 Dove {Zenaidura macroura caroliensis), a specimen of which 

 species is here reproduced in Figure 5. 



Xow in some parts of the country these Mourning Doves con- 

 gregate in great flocks, and in their nights they do, to a certain 

 extent and to the untrained eye, resemble the extinct Wild Pigeon. 



