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XORTII AMERICAX BIRDS. 



The Edopislcs mi/jratoria is blue above, the male piir]ilisli-red beneath, 

 the female brownish -ashy, passing into whitish behind. Tlie wing above 



Ectopistes rHigraxoria. 



and scapulars are spotted with bluish-black, the sides of the neck with 

 metallic gloss of solfei-ino-purple ; the inner webs of tail-feathers have each 

 a rufous and a black spot. 



Ectopistes migratoria, Sw.\ixson. 



WILD PIGEON; PASSENGEE-PIGEON. 



Cohimba migratoria, LiXN. Sj'st. Nat. 1, 1766, 285. — Gil. I, 389. — FoitsTF.R, Phil. Trans. 

 LXII, 1772, 398.— Wilson, Am. Om. I, 1808, 102, pi. xliv. — Wagler, Syst. Av. 1827, 

 No. 91. — Attd. Oni. Biog. I, 1831, 319 ; V, 561, pi. Ixii. Ectopistes migratoria, 

 SWAINSOX, Zool. Jour. Ill, 1827, 355. — In. F. Bor. Am. II, 1831, 363. — Bos. 

 Consp. At. II, 1854, 59. — AuD. Syn. 1839, 194. —Ib. Birds Amer. V, 1842, 25, pi. 

 cclx.xxv. — " Reich. Icones Av. tab. 249, figs. 1377, 1379." — Baikd, Birds N. Am. 

 1858, 600. —Max. Cab. J. VI, 1858, 424. — Lord, Pr. R. A. I. IV, 122 (British 

 Columbia, from coast ; nest on ground). — Cooper & Sucklev, 218. — Cooper, Orn. 

 Cal. I, 1870, 509. Columba canadensis, Li.NT;.Brs, Syst. Nat. I, 1766, 284. — Gm. I, 

 1788, 785. Female or j'oung. (Prior name?) Cohimba amcricana, "Kaiji, It. II, 

 527." Passenger Pigeon, Pennant, II, 322. — Lath. Syn. II, ii, 661. 



Sp. Char. Tail with twelve feathers. Upper parts generally, including sides of body, 

 head, and neck, and the chin, blue. Beneath, purple brownish-red, fading behind into a 

 violet tint. Anal region and under tail-coverts bluish-white. Scapulars, inner tertials, 

 and middle of back with an olive-brown tinge ; the wing-covert,'!, scapulars, and inner 

 tertials with large oval spots of blue-black on the outer webs, mostly concealed, except 

 on the latter. Primaries blackish, with a border of pale bluish tinged internally with red. 

 iliddle tail-feather brown ; the rest pale blue on the outer web, white internally ; each 

 with a patch of reddish-brown at the base of the inner web, followed by another of 

 black. Sides and back of neck richly glos.sed with metiUic golden-violet or reddish- 



