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feather is margined with black. Bahamas, and some of the 

 West Indies; rather uncommon on the Fla. Keys. Notes, 

 given in a minor key much those of some owls ; " Wof, wof, 

 iv o, co-woo" ; the first three notes are repeated several times, 

 then the last is long drawn out. Social, occurring in flocks 

 and breeding in communities. 



b. Long-tailed Pig-eons. Ectopistes. 



Medium-sized pigeons with long pointed tails that are 

 conspicuously marked with white. 



1. PASSENGER PIGEON, E. MIGRATORIUS. 16.50 ; up- 



Fig. 184. 



per parts, head, neck, and sides, ashy- 

 blue; beneath, purplish-red; under tail 

 coverts and tip of tail, white ; sides, and 

 back of neck iridescent with violet, 

 green, and gold, fig. 184. Breeding 

 range now restricted to portions of the 

 C a n a d a s and the northern border of 

 middle U. S. but formerly ranged 

 through eastern N. A. from Hudson Bay 

 southward. Alarm note, a kind of 

 laughing coo. Yery social, occurring in 

 large flocks and breeding in communi- 

 ties. 

 c. Spotted Doves. Zenaidura. 



Generally similar to b but with bill Q, A, b, 1. 1-8. 

 more slender and conspicuously spotted on secondaries with 

 black. 



1. MOURNING DOYE, Z. MACROURA. 12.00; reddish- 

 brown above under tinted with bluish ; purplish-red beneath 

 becoming lighter behind and ashy-blue on sides; tail, except- 

 ing central feathers, broadly tipped with white and crossed 

 above this by a black band ; spot on sides of upper neck, black ; 

 below it an iridescent patch of purple and gold, fig. 185 ; fe- 

 male, duller; tail, shorter. N. A. from southern Maine and 



