596 OKNITHOLOfiY. 



ECTOPISTES MIGRATORIA. 

 Pass(;iitfcr Pigeon. 



Columba migratoria, Linn., Syst. Nat., ], 17(i(i, 285. 



Ectopistes mi(/ratoria, SwAiNS., Zool. Jour., Ill, 1827, 355. — Bated, Birds N. Am., 

 1858, COO; Cat. N. Aiu. Birds, 1859, No. 448.— Cooper, Oru. Cal., I, 1870, 

 509.— Cour.S, Key, 1872, 225, fig. 145; Check List, 1873, No. 370; Birds 

 N.W., 1874, 387.— B. B. & K., Hist. N. Am. Birds, III, 1874, 308, pi. LVII, 

 fig. 4. 



Only a stray individual of this species was met with by us, and it 

 cannot be considered as more than an occasional straggler in the country 

 west of the Rocky Mountains. The specimen obtained flew rapidly past 

 one morning, and alighted a short distance from us, upon a stick by the 

 edge of a stream, whither it had probably come for water. Upon dissec- 

 tion it was found to have been feeding- upon the berries of a small cornel 

 {Cornus pubescens), which grew abundantly in the mountains. 



TjM of specimens. 



179, 9 juv.; West Hiunboldt Mountains (Camp IS), Nevada, September 10, 18G7. 

 13^ — 21| — 7g — GJ — g — I — 5,',, — 3. Bill, black, the rictus pinkish; iris, brownish, with 

 a narrow outer ring of carmine; tarsi and toes, pale livid salmon-color, the scutelliE 

 more brownish ; claws, blackish. 



Zen^dura CAROLINENSIS. 



ITIouriiiiij^ Dove. 



(Hung' -o-ho'-ah of the Washoes; We-ho'-pe of the Paiutes.) 



Columba carolinensis, LiNN., Syst. Nat., I, 1766, 286. 



Zenaidura carolinensis, Bonap., Consp., II, 1854, 84. — Batrd, Birds N. Am., 1858, 

 004; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, No. 451.— CooPER, Oru. Cal., I, 1870, 512.— 

 CoUES, Key, 1872, 220, fig. 14G; Check List, 1873, No. 371; Birds N.W., 

 1874, .389.— B. B. & R., Ili.st. N. Am. Birds, III, 1874, 383, pi. LVUI, fig.2.— 

 Uexshaw, 1875, 431. 



Perhaps no bird, not even the Raven, is more universally distributed 

 through the Interior, without regard to the nature of the country, than the 

 common Mourning Dove, and certainly none is more abundant. It occurred 

 about the corrals of the stage-stations in the midst of the most extensive 

 deserts, many miles from any cultivated or wooded district, or natui'al 



