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year I saw a female, apparently near a nest, in Audubon Park the latter 

 part of May. I have found it in summer also in Cameron parish, near the 

 mouth of the Calcasieu river. The earliest date of arrival at New Orleans 

 is April 18, 1895. I have no records of the fall movements. 



(To be concluded.) 



ANATOMICAL AND OTHER NOTES ON THE PASSENGER 



PIGEON (EC TOPIS TES MIGRA TORIUS) LATELY LIVING 



IN THE CINCINNATI ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. 



BY DR. R. W. SHUFELDT. 



Plates IV-VI. 



On February twenty-first, 1914, Mr. S. A. Stephan, General 

 Manager of The Cincinnati Zoological Company, of Cincinnati, 

 Ohio, wrote me that " Our Passenger Pigeon has been promised to 

 the Smithsonian Institution when it dies. This bird is a female 

 and now about 29 years old, and the last one of a flock of eight 

 that we got in 1878." I have since learned that it was hatched in 

 the Garden. 



The specimen of which Mr. Stephan speaks was, beyond all 

 reasonable doubt, the last living representative of its race in the 

 world, — the last, the very last, of the millions upon millions of 

 those birds which were known to pass over certain sections of the 

 United States during their migrations to and from their feeding 

 and breeding grounds. Many of us, whose birthdays date back to 

 the middle of the last century and before, and who resided in the 

 districts where these vast unnumbered hosts of migrating "blue 

 pigeons " darkened the heavens for days at a time, distinctly re- 

 member the cruel, unnecessary slaughtering of those birds, untold 

 thousands of which were never used for any purpose whatever; 

 millions of others of which were slain for their feathers alone, while 

 it is now impossible to form any correct estimation of the number 



