ORDER COLUMBiE 



Family Columbidse 



Mourning Dove. — Zenaidura macroura. 1 1 .90 



Fairly Common Summer Resident 



Field marks. — Only common wild dove in this County; makes 

 whistling sound with wings as it flies; long pointed tail; 

 dove-like in appearance. 



There can be no mistaking this bird for one of any other 

 family. While no great numbers are met with about here, 

 still a few are seen every year during the breeding season. 

 The nest is a slight platform of sticks, placed rather low in a 

 tree, often in an orchard; eggs, two, white. 



Passenger Pigeon. — Edopistes migratorius. 16.29 



Rarest of all Birds; Nearly Extinct in East. 



Field marks. — Upper parts slaty-blue; back and sides of neck 

 iridescent; center of back and scapulars brownish-olive, 

 becoming dusky on wings, which are tipped with white; 

 under parts bright reddish-buff; lower belly white. 



This beautiful Pigeon, formerly the most abundant of all 

 our birds, is now among the scarcest. Time was when they 



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