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Famity PHASIANIDA—Pueasants, TURKEYS, ETC. 
1. Very large, 40 to 50 inches long; tail broad; plumage lustrous; head and 
upper neck without feathers; breast with tuft of hair-like feathers 
Bae fs toviger Cages ko Ey oO rc Ne Be ERGO Peas Be BEANE EA TU Oi aN eR Wild Turkey. 
1. Medium sized, 20 to 30 inches long; tail lengthened and graduated, the 
feathers tapering to a point; adult male with white neck- -ring, the neck 
_ and head feathered, breast rich coppery chestnut, with metallic purple 
and coppery reflections; female brownish, more or less spotted and 
mottled with darker. . Sencha .. Ring-necked Pheasant. 
310. Meleagris gallopavo silvestris (Vieitlot) ivr» TURKEY. 
This magnificent bird was formerly abundant throughout the 
wooded portions of the state and even on the adjoining prairies as 
far west along the Platte and Republican rivers as McCook and North 
Platte. Now, if present at all, very rare; confined to the heavier 
bodies of timber between the mouth of the Niobrara and Sioux City 
in the vicinity of Rockport north of Omaha, and between Brownville 
and Rulo. In territorial days it was common along the Elkhorn, the 
_ Big and Little Blue rivers, and on the Niobrara to Long Pine, as well 
as along the wooded borders of others of our streams. 
000. Phasianus torquatus Gmelin—RinG-NECKED PHEASANT. 
This introduced Asiatic pheasant seems to have gained a precarious 
foothold in portions of southeastern Nebraska where individual birds 
are occasionally to be met with. A few of them are shot each year 
although there is a statute making their killing a misdemeanor pun- 
ishable by a fine of fifty dollars for each bird so destroyed. Table Rock, 
Pawnee, and Barnston. 

ORDER IX. COLUMB2—Doves anp Picrons 
Famity COLUMBIDZA—Doves 
1. Larger, 15 to 17 inches long; tail 81 inches, pointed; back slate-blue; 
below chestnut near chin to whitish toward tail... . Passenger Pigeon. 
1. Smaller, 11 to 13 inches long; tail 52 inches, less Houtied back brownish; 
madier parts brownish to yellow or buff............Mourning Dove. 
315. Ectopistes migratorius Tt eae aes Se ated PIGEON. 
Formerly rather common along the Missouri river. Now very 
rare, and probably entirely absent from the state. The last records 
of its presence as a Nebraska bird are from West Point, Norfolk, 
Florence, Papillion, and Omaha. 
316. *Zenaidura macroura (Linnaeus)—Mournina Dove. 
An exceedingly common bird over the entire state; chiefly asummer 
resident, arriving in April and departing during November. Some 
individuals remain throughout winter in sheltered localities south- 
ward. It nests both in trees and on the ground, and rears from two 
to three broods of young during the summer months. 
