476 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [1895. 



For the best account of the disappearance of this celebrated bird in 

 Tennessee, I am again indebted to Mr. Miles; he says: "Wild 

 Pigeons last visited our section [Brownsville] in numbers in the 

 year 1881, but were not as numerous as about eight years before — 

 I remember that I remarked then they were depleted. In the 

 fall of 1893, Mr. Riddick of this town killed one of a flock of eight, 

 five miles from here — the last I know of being in the county. The 

 first I remember of them must have been in the year 1851, when I 

 was five years old. They roosted that fall ten miles from here and 

 about a mile from our home. Permission was given me to go with 

 the negroes to the roost, and I well remember one of them put me in 

 a cotton hamper and carried me on his shoulders, and how scared I 

 was at the noise when we arrived — however, we got our bags and 

 baskets full; killed them with poles — and got back early. That was 

 my first taste of sport and I have been a sportsman ever since. As 

 near as I can recall the dates, we had them in 1853-1855 — that 

 year I had a gun and shot them in Carroll County, this State. In 

 1856 I went to Virginia ... In 1863 in Virginia they were as 

 plenty as ever. In 1865 I was here [Brownsville] and that fall a 

 few came in scattering flocks and I was ready for them. In 1866 

 there were more than in '65, in '67 more still, though not in the 

 overwhelming numbers, and we feared their extermination then. 

 Thence till '81, while there were every year more or less to be 

 killed easily, we saw them no more in droves. That year they came 

 for the last time, and as though to take our farewell shot, every one, 

 black and white, turned out and the slaughter was fearful, and 

 months after they left, the wounded could be found . . . and I 

 heard and believe that in isolated cases they nested in our bottoms 

 — the only cases I heard of here in my day, though the negroes told 

 me of the time they used to nest here — as near as I could guess, in 

 the '40s." 



Genus ZENAIDURA Bonaparte. 



63. Zenaidura macroura (L.). Mourning Dove. 



Very abundant everywhere, except in the mountains, where it 

 becomes rare at 3,000 feet elevation. 



Genus COLUMBIGALLINA Boie. 



64. Columbigallina passerina terrestris (Chapm.). Ground Dove. 



I was greatly surprised while walking along the road from Harri- 



