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slowly back again, and approaching within gunshot, was fired at, when it 

 fell with a thump on the rocks below. Other individuals similar to this one 

 were seen as they soared majestically, in broad circles, about the higher 

 cliffs, but none of them came within range. Upon descending to where 

 our supposed prize lay, we were considerably disappointed to find it Init the 

 young of the common species, its peculiar appearance being caused by a 

 patch of dense white down which still covered the occiput. Upon dissection, 

 this specimen was found to have been last feeding entirely on dead fish. 



List of specimens. 

 l-'.S, S ad.; eastern shore of Pyramid Lake, August IG, 1867. 27^— 69— 20J— 16J 

 ""^t'ti— -— lU— 7^. Bill, chalk-white; iris, raw-umber; head and naked portion of 

 the neck, livid crimson, deepest on the forehead and occiput; across the \erte.x, from 

 eye to eye, a broad baud of livid whitish papillaj; tarsi and toes, dirty livid yellowish- 

 white. 



130, ? JMi>.; island in Pyramid Lake, August IG, 1867. 27J— 70^21^17—1^ 

 2—11^—7^. Bill, dull black; iris; light yellowish-brown ; head and naked portion of 

 the neck, livid browuish-black ; tarsi and toes, dirty livid ashy-white. 



Faaiily COLUMBIDxE— Pigeoxs or Doves. 



COLUMBA FASCIATA. 

 Band-lailcd Pi^foon. 



Columba/asciata, Say, Long's E.xped., II, 1.Sl'3, 10.— Baird, Birds N. Am., 18.W, 

 597 ; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, No. 445.— Cooper, Orn. Cal., I, 1870, 50G — 

 COUES, Key, 1872, 225; Checik List, 1873, No. 367 ; Birds N.W., 1874, 385.— 

 B. B. & K., Hist. N. Am, Birds, III, 1874, 360, pi. Lvii, fig. 2.— IIenshaw. 

 1875, 429. 



On the 19th of November, 1867, we saw a single individual of wliat 

 must have been this species, flying to the southward over the Truckee 

 ^Meadows. Its appearance and size was very much that of the common 

 House-Pigeon, but, from the manner of its flight, it was evidently a wild 

 bird. The sjiecimens in our collection were presented by Mr. Parker, who 

 obtained them in the neighborhood of San Francisco. 



List of specimens. 



426, "9" od.; "San Francisco, California, January 31, 1868. 16— 26^— (T)— 7/j. 

 Bill, yellow, the tip black; eye, pink-red; lids, vermilion-red; feet, yellow." 



427, "(J" (?) ad.; " San Francisco, Januarj' 31, 18G8. 153— 26^— (t)— 7J." Same 

 remarks. 



