COLUMBA FASCIATA. 595 



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

 fell with a thump on the rooks 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 wliere 

 our supposed prize lay, we were considerably disappointed to find it but tlie 

 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 spevimenn. 



VIS, S adj eastern shore of Pyramid Lake, August IG, 1867. 27|— 69— 20J— 16J 

 — ^tg— -— IH— "i- Bill, chalk-white; iris, raw-umber; head aud naked portion of 

 the neck, livid crimson, deepest on the forehead and occiput; across the vertex, from 

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

 white. 



130, 9juv.; island in Pyramid Lake, August IG, 18G7. 27^— 70i — 21i — 17— 1 J— 

 2— IH— "i- I^'"i tlull black; iris, light yellowish-brown ; head and naked portion of 

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



Family COLUMBIDiE— Pigeons or Doves. 



COLUMBA FASCIATA. 



Baud-tailed Pigeon. 



(Mumbafasciata, Say, Long's Exped., II, 1823, 10.— Baird, Binls N. Am., 1858, 

 597 ; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, No. 445.— Cooper, Orn. Cal., I, 1870, 506.— 

 CoUES, Key, 1872, 225; Check List, 1873, No. 307 ; Birds N.W., 1874, 385.— 

 B. B. & R., Hist. N. Am. Birds, III, 1874, 360, i,l, lvii, fig. 2.— IIenshaw, 

 1875, 429. 



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

 must have l)een this species, flying to the southward over the Truckee 

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

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

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

 obtained them in the neighborhood of San Francisco. 

 List of specimens. 



426, ''9"arf.; "San Francisco, California, January 31, 1868. 16—263 — {'!)—7j\. 

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



427, " ^" (^) a(Z.; "San Francisco, January 31, 1868. 15|— 26i— (?)— 7J." Same 



