84 NEBRASKA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



315. Ectopistes migratorius {Linn.). — Passenger Pigeon. 



West Point, Norfolk (L. Hruner); "Some years abundant in Nebniska " 

 (Aughey); "Summer resident, irregular, arrives in May and leaves in Septem- 

 ber " (Taylor); " Deciduous forest regions of eastern North America"' (Bend- 

 ire); west to the great plains (Goss); Florence (L. Skow); "One killed out of 

 flock of fifteen or twenty by Hon. Edgar Howard, of Papillion, in woods five 

 miles south east of that place, in Sarpy county, Nov. 9, 1895, — also a flock of 

 fifteen was by Geo. W. Sabine, of Omaha, seen flying over his residence on 

 morning of Nov. 28, 1895" (I. S. Trostler); Cumin j; county (J. H. Mockett, Jr.). 



Fig. 11. — Carolina Dove. 



816. Zenaidura macroura {Linn.). — Mourning Dove; Caro- 

 lina Dove. 



Especially common over wooded portions of the state where it breeds (L. 

 Bruner); " Abundant in Nebraska " (Aughey): "Summer resident, abundant, 

 arrives in April and leaves in September" (Taylor); "Extends over the entire 

 United States" (Bendire); " The whole of temperate North America" (Goss); 

 Beatrice, De Witt (A. S. Pearse); Omaha — nesting (L. Skow); Peru, breeds, 

 winters (G. A. Coleman); Cherry county — breeds (J. M. Bates); Genoa (D. 

 H. Talbot) ; Gage county — breeds (F. A. Colby); Omaha, "an abundant sum- 

 mer resident — breeds Apr. 1 to Sept. 1 " (L S. Trostler). 



Order RAPT0RE8.— Birds of Prey. 



In summing up tiie food-habits of the hawks and owls as found in 

 the state, I can do no better than to quote Dr. C. Hart Merriam's 

 words used in his letter of transmittal to the Secretary of Agriculture 

 when submitting for publication a report on the hawks and owls of 

 the United States. He writes as follows :* 



•*"The Hawks and Owls of the United States in Their Relation to Agriculture," 

 by A. K. Fisher, U. S. Dept. Agric. , Div. Ornith. and Mam., Bui. No. 3. 



