PLATE XV. — THE LAST PASSENGER PIGEON. 



A female in the Cincinnati Zoblogical Garden which died September I, 

 1914, being then about twenty-nine years old. The long, elegant 

 tail feathers have been broken off in the cage. (From a photo- 

 graph made and copyrighted by Enno Meyer, Cincinnati, 0., 

 191 I.) The immense hosts of the Passenger Pigeon, formerly 

 one of the greatest zoblogical wonders of the world, are now 

 extinct. 



