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The Texas Turtle Dove was a bird concerning which he had 

 been able to find very little reliable information, but had seen 

 portraits of the species. The Ground Dove, the smallest species 

 known to our country, was more or less abundant at the south, from 

 the mouth of the Mississippi to Cape Hatteras. 



The Carolina Turtle Dove was abundant in all the southern 

 states, and in summer ranged as far north as our section, he him- 

 self having seen it among the low pines at Front's Neck, and a 

 specimen which belonged to the former cabinet of the Society hav- 

 ing been shot in Standish. 



The common wild Pigeon was known ov^er the whole country, 

 and sometimes was seen in inconceivable numbers. 



He gave some account of his own investigations as to their 

 resorts, breeding places, etc., and contradicted the assertion of 

 Wilson, that they raised but one young at a time, he having known 

 several instances of two squabs being taken from the same nest. 



To be continued. 



Occasional Notes on Birds at Sea. 



By Dr. William C. Kendall, Scientific Assistant, U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. 

 (Continued from the June Journal.) 



The notes made by the writer in 1891 and 1894, while serving 

 as naturalist on the U. S. Fish Commission Schooner, "Grampus," 

 were published in the June Journal. Additional notes, made in 

 1895, are here printed. The cruises of the "Grampus" extended 

 from off the coast of Virginia to the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and even 

 southern Labrador. 



1895. 



April 20. Latitude 37° 04' north ; 74° 51' west. Temperature 

 of air 46° F.; wind northwest by north ; moderate breeze : sky nearly 

 clear; sea moderate. Northern Phalaropes and Gannets {Sula bas- 

 sana) have been pretty common from daylight up to this time. The 

 Phalaropes are very abundant, but in small flocks or more or less 



