COLUMBID.E — THE PIGEONS — ECTOPISTES. 



609 



Genus ECTOPISTES, Swaixsox. 



Eclopistcs, SwAINSON, Zuol. Jour. III. 1827, 3G2. (Type, Culumba luiyraloriii, L. ) 



Gen. Ciiak. IL-ail very small. Bill short, black; culmen one tliinl the rost of head. 

 Tarsi very short, half covered anteriorly by feathers. Inner lateral claw much larger 



E. migratoriOk 



than outer, reaching to the base of the middle one. Tail very long and excessively cune- 

 ate ; about as long as the wings. First primary nearly equal to the second or longest. 



Ectopistes migratoria, Swaixsox. 



THE WILD PIGEON; THE PASSENGER PIGEON. 



Columhn migratoria, Liyx.Eus, Syst. Nat. I. 17GG, •iKi. — Gmelix, Syst. Nat. I. .3S9. — 

 FoRSTER, Phil. Trans. LXII. 1772, .398. — Wilsos, Am. Orn. I. 180->, 102; pi. xliv. 

 — BoNAP.UiTK.Obs. Wils. 182.^, No. 179. — Wagi.er, Syst. Av. 1827, No. 91. — Audu- 

 bon, Orn. Biog-. I. 1831, 319; V. SGI ; pi. G2. — Ertopisirs mii/raloiia, Swaixson', ZooI. 

 Jour. III. 1827, 355. Ib, Fauna Bor. Anier. II. 1831, 36.3. — Bonaparte, List, 1838. 

 Ib. Consp. Av. II. 1854, 59. — AuDUBOX, Syn. 1839, 194. Ib. Birds Amer. V. 1842, 

 25; pi. 285. — "Reich. Icones Av. tab. 249, figs. 1377, 1379." — Baird, Birtls N. 

 Amer. 1858, 600. — Cooper and Suckley, XII. iii. Zool. ofW. T. 218. 



Cohimba Canadensis, Linn.eus, Syst. Nat. I. 17G6, 284. — Gmelix, Syst. Nat. I. 1788, 785. 

 Female or young. (Prior name ?) 



Colamha Americana, " Kalm, It. II. 527." 



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



>Sp. Char. Tail with twelve feathers. l'])per parts generallv, including siiles of boily, 

 head, and neck, and the chin, blue. Beneath jiurplish browuisli-rcd, fading behind with a 



