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MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
One pair taken on Vancouver Island and presented to the 
Museum by Mr. J. Fannin. 
ORDER COLUMB. PIGEons. 
XXVIII. Famity COLUMBIDA. Piceons. 
CXV. COLUMBA Linnzvs. 1758. 
312. Band-tailed Pigeon. 
Columba fasciata SAY. 1823. 
Never seen in large flocks in British Columbia. (Lord.) A 
very common summer resident in the coast district ; flocks of 
several hundred have been seen sitting in the trees at one time. 
(Streator.) Irregular through the southern portions of British 
Columbia ; a summer resident ; tolerably common. (/amnin.) 
Abundant summer resident in Lower Fraser valley. (Bvooks.) 
Abundant on the south end of Vancouver Island. A summer 
resident also on the mainland and in the valley of the Fraser 
River. (Spreadborough.) 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
One taken at Agassiz, B. C., May 8th, 1889, by Mr. W. Spread- 
borough. 
CXVI. ECTOPISTES Swainson. 1827. 
315. Passenger Pigeon. 
Ectopistes migratorius (LINN.) SWAINS. 1827. 
At one time breeding in Nova Scotia, but now scarcely if ever 
seen. (Downs.) Very seldom seen in New Brunswick now, but 
formerly abundant. (Chamberlain.) Specimens obtained at Moose 
Factory, Hudson Bay, by Drexler, August, 1860. Verrill saw a 
single individual at Heath Point, Anticosti, in 1860. (Packard.) 
Fort Churchill, Hudson Bay. (Clarke.) Charlesbourg, possibly 
breeds in Quebec. (Dzonne.) Common migrant in the district of 
Montreal, in 1862. (Dr. Hall.) Transient visitor ; scarce. Two 
were shot the latter end of August, 1883, at Chambly, and 
one was shot September 15th, 1885, on the spur of Mount Royal ; 
