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Order IV. COLUMB^ 



Fam. COLUMBIl)^. 



PASSENGER PIGEON. Columba migratoria, Linnseus. 

 Length, 17 in. ; bill, 075 in. ; wing, 8 in. ; tarsus, 1 in. 



Hah. North America to High Central Plains. 



One, Monymeal, Fifeshire, Dec. 31, 1825: Fleming, "Hist. 

 Brit. An.," p. 145. 



One between Crishall and Royston, July 1844 : Yarrell, 

 "Hist. Brit. Birds," 3rd ed. vol. ii. p. 317; Christy, 

 " Birds of Essex," p. 215. 



One seen near Tring, Hertfordshire : Yarrell, op. cit. 



One near Mellerstain, Berwickshire, shot by Lord Hadding- 

 ton : Turnbull, " Birds of East Lothian," p. 41. A 

 gentleman in Berwickshire, however, had turned out 

 several Passenger Pigeons shortly before the Mellerstain 

 specimen was shot (Turnbull, I.e.). 



One near Tralee, Ireland, 1848: Thompson, "Nat. Hist. 

 Irel. (Birds)," vol. iii. p. 443. 



One near Melbourne, Derbyshire : Briggs, Field, September 

 10, 1869. 



One, a young bird, now in the Saffron Walden Museum, 

 shot by the late Mr. John Norman of Known's Folly 

 Farm, part of which is in Cambridgeshire and part in 

 Essex: Christy, "Birds of Essex," p. 215. 



One shot by Lord Harry Phipps, at Mulgrave, near Whitby, 

 Yorkshire, Oct. 12, 1876. In the collection of Earl 

 Ravensworth : Hancock, Trans. Nat. Hist. Northwmh., 

 vol. V. (1877), p. 337 ; Zool, 1877, p. 180. 



Ohs. Mr. Saunders remarks in his " Manual " 

 (p. 487) that it may be reasonably doubted whether 

 any of these birds had crossed the Atlantic in a 

 wild state. From most parts of North America 



