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PASSENGER PIGEON. 



PLATE CXXXVI. 



Columba migratoria, FLEMING. YABHELL. 



Ectopistes migratarius, SELBT. 



IT would appear that the nest, which is placed in trees, and is 

 only a layer of a few sticks, is put together in a single day, and 

 that the young are hatched in sixteen days; both male and female 

 assisting in making the nest, the former bringing the materials, and 

 the latter arranging them, and also in the work of incubation. . 



The egg, for only one is laid, is pure white. 



