COLUMBIA. 



COLUMBIDJB. 



ECTOPISTES MIGRATORIUS (LinnaBUS*). 

 THE PASSENGER PIGEON. 



Ectopistes migrator ius. 



ECTOPISTES, Swainson^. Bill small, slender and notched. Wings rather 

 elongated, pointed ; the second feather longest. Tail very long and extremely 

 cuneate. Tarsi very short, half- covered anteriorly by feathers ; anterior 

 scales imbricate ; lateral scales small and reticulate. 



THE AMERICAN PASSENGER PIGEON was included in the first 

 Edition of this work on the strength of the occurrence of a 

 single specimen recorded by Dr. Fleming in his * History 

 of British Animals,' p. 145, as having been " shot while 

 perched on a wall in the neighbourhood of a pigeon-house, 



* Columba migratoria, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. Ed. 12, i. p. 285 (1766). 

 t Zoological Journal, iii. p. 362 (1827). 



