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from a specimen of any of those he brought home from his hunt. 

 On the other hand, if they failed to be those of a male Wild Pigeon 

 (Ectopistes mtgratorhis), he was to pay me fifty dollars. That put 

 a quietus on his boasting, and I subsequently learned from another 

 party that the birds he saw were the wild Band-tailed Pi^^eon— a 



Fig. 5. The Mourning Dove; adult female. Captive specimen. Photo 

 by the author. Reduced. 



not uncommon bird at this time in some parts of California. On 

 the whole, however, the bird which has most frequently been mis- 

 taken for the extinct Wild Pigeon is our well-known Mourning 

 Dove (Zenaidura macroura caroliensis), a s-j)ccimen of whicli 

 species is here re])roduccd in Figure 5. 



Now in some ])arts of the country these Mourning Dca'cs con- 

 gregate in great fiocks, and in thcnr fliglits they do, to a c-crlain 

 extent and to the untrained eye, rcsembk) the extinct Wild Pigeon. 



