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The Blue-Headed Pigeon (Starnoenas cyanocep- 

 hala) fs another West Indian bird that visits Key West. 

 It is somewhat Hke a quail in appearance and in some 

 of its habits, with a blue bill and carmine feet. It is 

 about twelve inches in length. There are doves of 

 approximately the same size, and some are larger. 

 The Red-bill, the White wing in Mexico, Zenaida at 

 Florida Keys and in the Antilles, the Zenaidura in the 

 Carolinas, Louisiana and CaHfornia. It visits New 

 England in summer and may be seen in all the states, 

 occasionally, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, in its 

 migratory flights, having a variety of local names and 

 somewhat varying plumage ; it is Ortolan in Louisiana ; 

 Mourning Dove, or Common Dove, in other states, 

 where its rapid flight and whistling wings are known 

 to the country school children at the roadsides, and in 

 the silent barren. In the Atlantic and Gulf states, as 

 far north as Carolina, the tiny Ground Dove is 

 known to everyone; and the Scaly Dove (Scardafella 

 Inca) may be seen along the Rio Grande ; in Arizona 

 and southwards to Guatemala, in two species, one of 

 which may also be seen in South America. 



There are many more individual illustrations of the 

 varying orders to which the many pigeon tribes be- 

 long, but those already described are sufficient for our 

 purpose, at the present time. Domesticated pigeons 

 are found to be sufficiently parallel with the native 

 wild species of America to pursue our general inves- 

 tigations upon; so we take a pigeon egg, weighing 



