460 CHECK LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Columba fasciata Say. Band-tailed Pigeon. 



Columba fasciata Say, in Long, Exped. Rocky Mts., II, 1823, 10 (note). 



Modern form reported from Pleistocene: Rancho La Brea, Los Angeles, 

 and Carpinteria, California. 



Genus ZENAIDURA Bonaparte. 



Zenaidura Bonaparte, Consp. Avium, II, sig. 11, Dec. 10, 1854 [April 15, 

 1855], 84. Type, by monotypy, Columba carolinensis Linnaeus. 



Zenaidura macroura (Linnaeus). Mourning Dove. 



Columba macroura Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 164. 



Modern form reported from Pleistocene: Seminole Field, Florida; McKit- 

 trick, and Rancho La Brea, Los Angeles, California. 



Genus ECTOPISTES Swainson. 



Ectopides Swainson, Zool. Journ., Ill, 1827, 362. Type, by subs, desig., 

 Columba migratoria Linnaeus (Gray, 1840). 



Ectopistes migratorius (Linnaeus). Passenger Pigeon. 



Columba migratoria Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, I, 1766, 285. 

 Modern form reported from Pleistocene: Cave deposits of Tennessee. 



Order PSITTACIFORMES. Parrot-like Birds. 



Family PSITTACIDAE. Parrots, Macaws and Paroquets. 

 Subfamily ARINAE. Paroquets and Macaws. 



Genus CONUROPSIS Salvadori. 



Conuropsis Salvadori, Cat. Birds. Brit. Mus., XX, 1891, 146, 203. Type, 

 by orig. desig., Psittacus carolinensis Linnaeus. 



Conuropsis fratercula Wetmore. 



Conuropsis fraicrcula Wetmore, Amer. Mus. Novitates, No. 211, March 

 11, 1926, 3, figs. 5-6. 



Early Middle Miocene {Merychippus primus Zone, Sheep Creek Beds); 

 Snake Creek Quarries, Sioux County, Nebraska. 



