596 ORNITHOLOGY. 



EOTOPISTES MIGRATOltlA. 

 Pusseii^rci- Pigeon. 



Columba migratoria, Linn., Syst. Nat., 1, 1766, 285. 



Ectoputes migratoria, SWAiNS., Zool. Jonr., Ill, 1827, 3.55. — Bated, Birds N. Am., 

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

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

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

 tig. 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 

 {Comu^ piibescens), which grew abundantly in the mountains. 



Lint of specimens. 



179, 9 JHv.; West Humboldt Moimtaiiis (Camp 18), Nevada, September 10, 1867. 

 13i — 21§ — 7| — «i — g — s— 5t6 — ^- ^'"' black, the rictus pinki.sh; iris, brownish, with 

 a narrow outer ring of carmine; tar.si and toes, pale livid salmoa-color, the scutelliB 

 more brownish ; claws, blackish. 



Zen^dura carolinensis. 



Mourning Dove. 



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



Columba carolinensis, Linn., Syst. Nat., I, 1760, 286. 



Zenaidura carolinensis, Bonap., Oousp., II, 1854, 84.— Baikd, Birds N. Am., 1858, 

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

 CouES, Key, 1872, 220, fig. 140; Check List, 1873, No. 371; Birds N.W., 

 1874, 389.— B. B. & R., Hist. N. Am. Birds, III, 1874, 383, pi. LViii, fig.2.— 

 Henshaw, 1875, 431. 



Perhaps no bird, not even the Raven, is more univei'sally distributed 

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

 common Mourning Dove, and certainly noite 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 natural 



