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too small for fi is;] it. Tlic last record <>l" tlu' dodo was in ]i\S\. 

 Jiotli of tliese r('inarkal)U' s[)e('i('s were iiiiwittiiiLclv cxtcnui- 

 nated by llic introduction into the islands of hogs, which il.- 

 stroyed their eggs and young. 



There are in Xortli America ton nfcnera and st'\ cntccn 

 species and varieties of pigeons and (h>ves. Most of these are 

 Western and Southern. The two name<l h(dow suggest most 

 important })roblems for eastern Xortli America. For tlic Kocky 



Fig. 19. Egg of passenger pigeon, on black velvet, in nest of mourning (l(»Vf 



The pigeon laid only one egg, al)out 1| inches huig: the (h)ve, tw.. .•-.-s al)..iit 

 1 inch long. This figure thus furnishes a decisive means of distinuMiisiiin-r tli.- tw.. 

 species. Photograph from speeimeiis in the Amcri<-an Mns.'um of Natural Hi-i.-.s 



Mountain and Pacific States the types studied sliould he tin- 

 band-tailed pigeon, CoJumha fascidfa, from liritish (\)himl)ia 

 to Mexico; Viosca's pigeon, C.f. vid^ra\ southciii Lower (^di- 

 fornia; and the red-billed pigeon, C.jiaviroxtris. 



Passenger pigeon — Ectojn'stfs iiiif/nttorlns. This nio>l valnaldo ut 

 North American pigeons exi.sted less than forty years ago in Hocks 

 which .stretched from horizon to horizon. It is now a .^erions tpicstion 

 whether the last living specinu'n lias not been seen. 



