, — e^.o 



PASSENGER PIGEON. 



(Columba migratoria, L. Wilson, v. p. 102. pi. 44. fig. 1. [male,] 

 AuD. pi. 62. Orn. i. p. 319. Phil, Museum, No.) 



Sp. Charact. — Bluish-grey ; belly white ; throat, breast, and sides 

 vinaceous ; tail black, of 12 feathers, the 5 lateral ones whitish. — 

 Female paler, with the breast cinereous brown. — Young of a dull 

 muddy grey, spotted with whitish. 



The Wild Pigeon of America, so wonderful for its gre- 

 garious habits, is met with more or less according to 

 circumstances from Mexico to Hudson's Bay, in which 

 inhospitable region they are even seen in December, 

 weathering the severity of the climate with indifference, 

 and supporting themselves upon the meagre buds of the 

 juniper, when the ground is hidden by inundating snows. 

 To the west they are found to the base of the Northern 

 Andes or Rocky Mountains, but do not appear to be 

 known beyond this natural barrier to their devious wan- 

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