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particularly numerous, and, at the latter place, associated with Swainson's 

 Hawk (B. swainsoni). The quills of this bird are generally used by the 

 Indians to feather their arrows. Perhaps this may account for their distrust 

 of man ; for even when found near the settlements, they have none of the 

 semi-domesticated habits which they possess in southern cities, while in the 

 solitudes of the western wilderness they are among the shyest of birds of 

 prey. 



ORDER COLUMBAE: COLUMBINE BIRDS, 



FAM. COLUMBIDAE: PIGEONS. 



COLUMBA FASCIATA, Say. 



Band-tailed Pigeon. 



Columbafasciata, SAY, Long's Exped. Rocky Mts., ii, 1823, 10. WOODH., Sitgreave's 

 Exp. Zufli & Col. Eiv., 1854, 92. NEWB., P. E. R. Rep., vi, 1857, 92. BD., 

 Birds N. A., 1858, 597. XANTUS, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 192 

 (Fort TVjon, Cal.). BD., U. S. & Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1859, Birds, 

 21. OENRY, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 108 (New Mexico). Coop. 

 & SUCKL., P. R. R. Rep., xii, pt. ii, 1860, 217. COUES, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila., 1866, 93 (Fort Wbipple, Ariz.). COOPER, AID. Nat., iii, 1869, 80 

 (Montana). Id., Birds Cal., i, 1870, 506. COUES, Key N. A. Birds, 1872, 

 225. BD., BREW., & RiDG., N. A. Birds, iii, 1874, 358, 360, pi. 57, f. 2. 

 HENSHAW, Rep. Orn. Specs., 1873, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 140. COUES, 

 Birds Northwest, 1874, 385. 



Of the habits of this beautiful pigeon I am able to add nothing to 

 what is already known. At Camp Apache, Ariz., farther north than which 

 I did not meet with it, I obtained a single specimen, August 21. In pass- 

 ing southward from here, during September, I saw an occasional flock ; 

 once at least two hundred. They were generally feeding and were very 

 shy, so that I found it impossible to either observe their habits or procure 

 specimens. 



During the past season, I found this dove early in August in the pine 

 region of Mount Graham, where it spends the summer. They were in pairs, 

 and not unlikely had young still dependent upon their care. They were so 

 shy that I only occasionally caught a glimpse of one as it flew out of the 

 tops of the tall dead pines, where they were accustomed to perch. As they 



