COLUMBID.E. 



COLVMBID^E. 



ECTOPISTES MIGRATORIUS (LiunffiUS*). 



THE PASSENGER PIGEON. 



Ectojnstes migratorius. 



EcTOPiSTES, Stoainsonf. Bill small, slender and notched. Wings rather 

 elongated, pointed ; the second feather longest. Tail very long and extremely 

 cuneate. Tarsi very short, half-covered anteriorly by feathers; anterior 

 scales imbricate ; lateral scales small and reticiilate. 



The American Passenger Pigeon was included in the first 

 Edition of this work on the strength of the occurrence of a 

 single specimen recorded by Dr. Fleming in his * History 

 of British Animals,' p. 145, as having been " shot while 

 perched on a wall in the neighbourhood of a pigeon-house, 



* Columba migratoria, Linnpeus, Syst. Nat, Ed. 12, i. p. 285 (1766). 

 t Zoological Journal, iii. p. 362 (1827). 



