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Islands. The African 7. senegalensis is found in the Canaries, and 
several introduced species occur in Madagascar or Mauritius. 
Group (g).—The seventh section of the Peristerinae is character- 
ized by metallic spots near the ear-coverts and an iridescent gloss 
on the sides of the neck.  Jelopelia leucoptera, found from Texas 
to Costa Rica and the West Indies, and the very similar J/. 
meloda of Peru and Chili, have a white wing-patch. One of the 
notes resembles a cock’s crow. Nesopelia, of the Galapagos, links 
these closely to Zenaida, with six members, found from the Florida 
Keys, Yucatan, and the Antilles, through South America to Pata- 
gonia. Z. anabilis, the Pea- or Mountain-Dove of the islands 
from the Florida Keys to Antigua, is reddish-olive, with vinous 
head and breast, two peacock-blue ear-spots, black blotches on 
the scapulars and wing-coverts, black remiges, and a white band 
across the secondaries. Chiefly terrestrial, it roosts and nests 
either on trees or on the ground, the flight being swift, and the 
note very soft. Zenaidura carolinensis, the Mourning-Dove of 
North America, including Southern Canada, is not unlike the 
above, but has the crown, sides of the body, and edges of the 
wings blue, and in the male the breast purplish. Small flocks 
often frequent the neighbourhood of houses, while the flight is 
strong, the note guttural and melancholy, the food of grain, 
berries, acorns, shoots of plants, and apparently worms. The 
nest is placed indifferently on the earth or aloft. 
Sub-fam. 3. Columbinae.—Ectopistes migratorius, the well- 
known Passenger-Pigeon, breeds in eastern North America, chietly 
in Canada and the adjoining United States, and wanders to the 
Pacific and Cuba. Its immense colonies are seemingly a thing 
of the past, though as lately as 1888 a northward flight crossed 
Michigan, where in 1878, at Petosky, the “roost,” or area 
occupied, is said to have been twenty-eight miles long by three 
or four broad. The trees were often laden with nests, and 
‘during a stay of five weeks several millions of birds are stated 
to have been captured, chiefly by means of nets and decoys; 
though earlier authors, such as Wilson, mention many different 
methods of slaughter. The parents were very noisy, and covered 
vast distances in search of food ; but, save for the sharp call-note, 
and the single egg, the other habits were as in most arboreal Pigeons. 
Coryphoenas crassirostris, of the Solomon Islands, a_slate- 
coloured species with brownish head and crest, resembles in its 
