A'o.4.J COUES'S ORNITH. BIBLIOGRAPHY COLUMBID^. 805 



187G. Reid, p. Pig(!<)iis [Ectopistcs mignitoriu.s] — Food iu Crop. <^ Hod and Gun, 

 vii, Jau. 8, 187(5, p. 227. See also p. 277. 



Explaining "rice" found in pigeon's stomachs, supposed by Audubou and others to prove 

 enormous velocity of the bird's flight. 



1876. Sterling, E. Passenger Pigeons [Ectopistes migratorins] and Rice. < Rod 

 and Gun, vii, Jan. 29, 1876, p. 277. 

 Koply to Roid, concerning "rice in crops", and velocity of flight. Sec p. 227. 



1876. "Tom Tramp." A pigeon [Ectopistes migratorins] roost. <i Rod and Gun, y'ui, 



Jnne 3, 1876, p. 149. 

 Breeding of, and statistics of capture and decrease of this species in Illinois. 



1877. CouES, E. Melopelia leucoptera in Colorado. <[ Bull. Xutt. Ornith. Clul, ii, 



No. 3, July, 1877, p. 83. 



1877. CouES, E. Leptoptila albifrons, a Pigeon now to the United States Fauna. 

 < Bull. Xutt. Ornith. Club, ii, No. 3, July, 1877, pp. 62, 83. 



Taken in Texas by G. B. Sonnett. Soon afterward made type of a new genus, ^chmoptila, 

 Coucs, Bull. TJ. S. Geol. Sitrv. Terr., iv, Xo. 1, 1878, p. 48 {= Engyptila, Sundev., Tentamen. 1872, 

 p. 156.) 



1877. Rowley, Ct.D. Geotrygon costaricensis (Lawrence). <^Ro)cl. Orn. Misc., iii, 



pt. xi, Nov., 1877, pp. 43-46, pi. Ixxxvii. 



Copy of orig. descr. in Ann. N. Y. Lye, ix, 1868, p. 136, with a colored fig. of the bird, and 

 notes by A. Boucard. 



1878. FiROR, V. M. Cliauieoepelia passerina. <[ Famili&r Science and Fancier's Journ., 



n. s., V, Apr., 1878, p. 86. 

 1878. Grinnell, G. B. The Ground Dove (Chamaepeleia passerina) in New York. 



<^Bull. Null. Ornith. Club, iii, No. 3, July, 1878, p. 147. 

 In New York City, Oct., 1862; specimen identiiied by J. W. Audubon; now first recorded. 

 1878. McL[ellan, L] The Wild or Passenger Pigeon (Columba [Ectopistes] niigra- 



toria). <^ Forest a7id Stream, ix, Jan. 31, 1878, p. 488. 



1878. Owen, T. M. Among the Pigeons [Ectopistes migratorins, in Ohio]. <^Forest 



and Stream, x. May 23, 1878, p. 297. 

 1878. Rowley, G. D. Chloroenas subvinacea. Lawrence. <^Rowl. Orn. Misc., iii, 



pt. xii, Jan., 1878, pp. 75^76, pi. xci. 

 Copy of orig. descr. in Ann. N. T. Lye. Nat. Hist, ix, Apr., 1868, p. 135, with colored plate, 



and a note from A. Boucard. 



1878. Rowley, G. D. Geotrygon rufiveutris, Lawrence. <^Rowl. Orn. J/isc, iii, pt. 

 xii, Jan., 1878, pp. 77, 78, pi. xcii. 



Copy of orig. descr. in Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., xi, 1875, with a colored plate, and note by 

 A. Boucard. 



1878. Rowley, G. D. Leptoptila cassini, Lawrence. <^Rowl. Orn. Misc., iii, pt. xii, 

 Jan. , 1878, pp. 79, 80, pi. xciii. 



1878. Sterling, E. [Acorns of the black-jack oak as] Food of the Wild Pigeon 



[Ectopistes migratorins]. <^ Forest and Stream, x, Mar. 14, 1878, p. 95. 



1879. Knapp, H. Statementabout the Wild Pigeon [Ectopistes migratorins]. <^For- 



est and Stream, xii, Mar. 27, 1879, p. 146. 

 Taken from some Central New York newspaper, either Buffalo or Eochester, I think. 

 1879. McQuiLLEN, J. H. Recovery of all the Faculties iu a Pigeon from which four- 

 fifths of the upper portion of the Cerebrum had been removed. <^ Froc. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci. Phila., Oct., 1878, (pnb. 1879), pp. 342-346. 

 1879. Thompson, F. J. Incubation [of Ectopistes migratorins] under Difficulties. 

 <[ Forest and Stream, xii, May 8, 1879, p. 265. 



Account of its breeding, in March, in an open air aviary in the Ginoiimati Zoological 

 Garden. 



