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passenger pigeon. During the summer, wliile breeding, their cooing and calls can be beard a 

 long distance. The name of this bird, in the Nisqually language, is ' ' hubboh, ' ' a good imitation 

 of its call. The practice is very common among these Indians to name birds and animals from 

 the sound of their calls and cries. Another example of this is the name of the Hutchins 

 goose, ''ah-hah," which is repeated once or twice to imitate their "honking." 



In the autumn these birds are in excellent order for the table ; indeed, I prefer them to the 

 wild pigeon of the Atlantic. — S. 



ECTOPISTES MIGRATORIA, Swain son. 



wild Pigeon ; Possengcr Pigeon. 



Columba migratona, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. I, 1766, 285 — Gm I, 389.— Forster, Phil. Trans. LXII, 1772, 398 — 

 Wilson, Am. Orn. I, 1808, 102; pi. xliv.— Bon. Obs. Wils. 1825, No. 179.— Wagler, Syst- 

 Av. 1827, No 91.— Add. Orn. Biog. I, 1831, 319; V, 561; pi. 62. 



Eclopistesmigratoria, Swainson, Zool. Jour. Ill, 1827, 355.— Ib. P. Bor. Am. II, 1831, 363.— Bon. List, 1838-16. 

 Consp. Av. H, 1854, 59.— Ann. Syn. 1839, 194— Ib. Birds Amer. V, 1842, 25; pi. 285.— 

 " Reich. Icones, Av. tab. 249, figs 1377, 1379."— Baird, Gen. Rep. Birds, p. 600. 



[For extended synonymy see Baird's Gen. Rep.] 



A bird in immature plumage, which I took to belong to this species, I saw in a clump of 

 choke cherry bushes on a branch of Milk river, near Bear's Paw mountains, Nebraska, about 

 175 miles east of the main range of the Rocky mountains. I think that the eastern base of 

 the latter chain may be considered their western limit. The country west of these mountains, 

 with the exception of a narrow strip near the Pacific, seems, geographically and botanically, 

 unsuited to the wants of the species.- — S. 



Townsend mentions the E. migraloria as found in " Oregon," but I have never seen or heard 

 of it- though, as I have seen it at Fort Laramie, it may cross the Rocky mountains into the 

 eastern part of the Territory. — C. 



ZENAIDURA COROLINENSIS, Bo nap. 



Carolina, or Common Dove. 



Columhttcarolintnsis, Linnaecs, Syst. Nat. 1, 1766, 286, No. 37.— Gmelin, I, 787.— Latham, Ind. II, 1790, 613.— 

 Wilson, Am. Orn. V, 1812, 91; pi. xliii.— Bon. Obs. 1825, No. 159.— Aud. Orn. Biog. 

 I, 1831, 91; V, 1839, 555; pi. 17.— Nottall, Man. I, 832, 626. 



Ectofistts canlinends, Rich. List, 1837.--Bonap. Geog. List, 1838.— Aud. Syn. 1839, 195.— Ib. Birds Amer. V, 

 1842,36; pi. 286. 



Zenaidura carolinensis, Bonap. Consp. Av. II, 1854, 84. Type.— Baibd, Gen. Rep. Birds, p. 604. 



Columba marginata, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. I, 1766, 286, No. 40, (best description.) — Gmelin, 1, 1788, 791. — 

 Wagler, Syst. Av. 1827, No. 91.— Ib. Isi.', 1831, 519. 



Eclofistes marginata, Gray, List, Br. Mus. 



? Eclopistf marginellus, Woodhouse, Pr. A. N. Sc. VI, June, 1852, 104.— Ib. Expl. Zuiii & Color. 1853, 93, 

 Birds, pi. v. Canadian river. Ark. Immature bird. 



? Zenaidura marginella, Bonap. Consp. Av. II, 1854, 85. 



Sp. Ch. Tail feathers, 14. Above bluish, although this is overlaid with light brownish olive, leaving the blue pure only 



on the top of the head, the exterior of the wings, and the upper surface of the tail, which is even slightly tinged with this 

 color. The entire head, except the vertex, tlie sides of the neck, and the under parts generally, light brownish red, strongly 

 tinged with purple on the breast, becoming lighter behind, and passing into brownish yellow on the anal region, tibia, and 

 under tail coverts. Sides of the neck with a patch of metallic purplish red. Sides of body and inside of wings clear liaht 

 blue. Wing coverts and scapulars spotted with black, mostly concealed, and an oblong patch of the same below the ear. 

 Tail feathers seen from below blackish, the outer web of outermost white, the others tipped with the same, the color becoming 



