386 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



Port E wen, N.Y. Spring of 1 904. 70-80 seen. Mershon, Passenger Pigeon. 1907. p. 184 

 Sullivan CO., N. Y. Fall 1904. Large flock seen. " " " " 183 



West Point. 1905. 2 seen. " " " " 180 



Catskill. Spring 1905. Flock seen. " " " " 183 



Sullivan CO. Fall 1905. Flock seen. " " " " 183 



Prattsburg, N. Y. April 1906. Large flock seen (Burroughs). Mershon, Passenger 



Pigeon, 1907. p. 181 

 Kingston, X. Y. May 15, 1906. Flock mile long seen (Burroughs). Mershon, Passen- 

 ger Pigeon. 1907. p. 181 

 Sullivan co., N. Y. Maj- 23, 1907. Flock of 1000 seen. Burroughs, Outlook, July 13, 



1907- P- 547 

 Rensselaervnlle, N. Y. Summer 1907. i seen. (Huyck). Judd, Birds of Albany Co. p. 136 



It is possible that some of these records, when the birds were merely 

 seen, are in error, but Mr Wilbur's specimen, which I saw killed, was un- 

 questionably reared in the spring of 1898, as it was just assuming the 

 adult plumage, and a few scattered birds of this species may still be in 

 existence, but we very much fear that the Passenger pigeon is doomed to 

 extermination. 



Zenaidura macroura carolinensis (Linnaeus) 

 Mourning Dove 



Plate 42 



Columba carolinensis Linnaeus. Syst. Nat. Ed. 12. 1766. 1:286 

 Ectopistes carolinensis DeKay. Zool. N. Y. 1844. pt 2, p. 197, fig. 166 

 Zenaidura macroura A. O. U. Check List. Ed. 2. 1895. No. 316 



zenaidu'ra, from Zenaida. name of an allied dove, and Gr. oipd, tail 



Description. Tail long, pointed, of 14 tapering feathers; wings pointed, 

 the second primaries longest, the first and third almost equal to it; tarsus 

 naked, scutellate in front, shorter than middle toe, but longer than lateral 

 toes; outer toe shorter than inner; bill shorter than head, slender; bare 

 space above the eye. In general form and color much like the Passenger 

 pigeon, but in structure quite different. Male: Upper parts, including central 

 tail feathers, bluish gray, shaded with olive-brown; head and neck over- 

 laid with glaucous blue: sides of neck with shining iridescence; a bluish 

 black spot under the ear; scapulars and wing coverts with a few black spots ; 

 tail feathers, except the middle ones, grayish blue for the basal portion, then 

 banded with l)lack and tipped with white ; forehead and under parts vinaceous, 

 becoming ocherous on the belly; bill black, angle of mouth carmine; 



