CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 217 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
One pair taken in Ontario many years ago. A set of eggs 
taken at Moose Factory, James Bay, June, 1888, by Mr. Miles 
Spence. 
CXVIIl. ZHENAIDURA Bonaparte. 1854. 
316. Wiourning Dove. 
Zenadura macroura (LINN.) RipGw. 1885. 
Appears to be becoming common. A few killed every year 
in Nova Scotia. (Downs.) Occasionally taken in New Brunswick. 
(Chamberlain.) Taken at Chateau Richer, Montmorency Co., 
three specimens at Godbout, one at St. Joachim, and one at Que- 
bec. (Déonne.) One killed in the district of Montreal, in June, 
1838. (Dr. Hall.) The Mourning Dove breeds sparingly through- 
out southern Ontario. ((/cllwraith.) More common to the west 
of London, Ont., than in its vicinity. Sometimes comes into the 
outskirts of the city and breeds in gardens. (W. Saunders.) Occa- 
sionally seen in winter at Plover Mills, Ont. (A. Adott.) A rather 
common summer resident in Manitoba, but rarer westward in the 
prairie region, though not uncommon. Mr. Spreadborough 
reports a few stragglers (males) during the last days of May at 
Indian Head, Assa., in the spring of 1892. 
Never seen in large flocks in British Columbia. (Lord.) Not 
uncommon in the interior; more were seen near the coast. 
(Streator.) Mainland and Vancouver Island ; nowhere common. 
(Fannin.) Tolerably common summer resident in the Lower 
Fraser valley. (Srooks.) The writer has found this bird numerous 
at only two points, between Manitoba and the Pacific coast. 
These were Medicine Hat, Assa., and Spence’s Bridge, B.C. In 
both places they were evidently breeding but no nests were 
taken. 
BREEDING Nortes.—A tolerably common summer resident near 
Portage la Prairie, Man., breeding in small wild plum trees. It 
arrives about the first of May. Nest found containing two eggs, 
on which the bird was sitting, June 7th, 1885. (Wash vide Seton- 
Thompson.) On July Ist, 1899, Mr. Robert Fraser, of Plover Mills, 
Ont., found a nest of this species in the middle of his clover 
meadow. This is the first that has come under my notice of this 
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