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enumerates them as Band-tailed Dove, Zenaida Dove, Key-West 

 Pigeon, Ground Dove, Blue-headed Pigeon and White-headed 

 Pigeon, Carolina Turtle and Texas Turtle Dove, and Passenger or 

 common Wild Pigeon. The fact is, there are sixteen kinds of 

 Doves or Pigeons which have been taken in the United States. 

 Fifteen of these are listed in the A. O. U. check list, and one, the 

 Scaled Pigeon, has been added since. The list is Band-tailed 

 Pigeon, Vioscas, Red-billed, White-crowned, Passenger, Mourning 

 Dove, Zenaida, White-fronted, White-winged, Ground, Mexican 

 Ground, Inca, Key-West, Ouail Dove, Ruddy Quail Dove, Blue- 

 headed Quail Dove, and the Scaled Pigeon. As the word indig- 

 enous is usually understood, "indigenous" means native, or born 

 in the country where found. These last four are never found here 

 except as stragglers and are marked as extra limital in the A. O. 

 U. list. I have all these kinds of Doves and Pigeons in my col- 

 lection, but what bird Mr. Beckett refers to by the name of Texas 

 Turtle Dove is more than I can guess. — Manly Hardy, Braver, Me. 



Treatment of North American Pigeons and Doves.— 

 In view of the foregoing criticism of Mr. Beckett's paper on 

 Pigeons and Doves, it must be pointed out that his paper was 

 published February ist, 1858 (Cf. Journal Me. Orn. Soc, XI, 

 p. 69), and must be judged by the knowledge of that time, and not 

 of our own. The works of Wilson, Bonaparte and Audubon were 

 then the sources of reference. Even the work by Baird, Cassin and 

 Lawrence, which appeared the same year, was not available at the 

 time Mr. Beckett's paper appeared. He reported nine species, while 

 the "Birds of North America," by Baird, Cassin and Lawrence, a 

 few months later, contained but eleven. One of these, the Scaled 

 Dove, was not then entitled to rank as North American, thus 

 leaving only the Red-billed Dove additional to those treated by Mr. 

 Beckett. Two of the four species now regarded as extra limital 

 were included in his paper, the Key-west and the Blue-headed Quail 

 Doves. Even here we find our author abreast of his time, for 



