THE. NATURALIST. i 
Band-Tailed Pigeons 
in California. 
N the morning of the 28th 
-* of October, in company with 
a friend of mine, I witnessed a 
Looking ahead of us we saw that 
almost every tree was covered with 
the birds, and as we approached 
they all arose and flew aim'ess'y 
about the gorge. The bands ap- 
proximated from 25 to 200. For 
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pleasant sight. While driving 
along a mountain road following 
the course of the Kaweah river, 
about thirty miles east of here, we 
started a group of Band-Tailed 
Pigeons, probably 100 in number. 
a while fully 2000 of the creatures 
were flying about in the air over 
us and finally disappeared further 
up the mountains. 
HARRY C; LILLIz, 
Visalia, California. 
BAND-TAILED PIGEONS. 
