PLATE XV. — THE LAST PASSENGER PIGEON. 



The only living specimen now known to exist. The long, elegant 

 tail feathers have been broken off in the cage. This is a 

 female in the Cincinnati Zoological Garden. (From a photo- 

 graph made and copyrighted by Enno Meyer, Cincinnati, 

 0., 1911.) The immense hosts of the Passenger Pigeon, 

 formerly one of the greatest zoological wonders of the world, 

 are now extinct. 



