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feathers on the neck the first year. This species is different 

 from that usually kept in cages or aviaries, and which bears 

 the same name. 



Turtle. Ring-necked Turtle. 



Columba Turtur, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 284. Columba Tur- 

 tur, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. ii. 448. Columba Turtur, Turtle 

 Dove, MacGillivray, Brit. Birds, i. 291. 



GENUS LXXVIL ECTOPISTES. PASSENGER 

 PIGEON. 



Bill of moderate length, straight, rather slender, broader 

 than high at the base, compressed toward the end ; upper 

 mandible with a tumid fleshy basal covering. Mouth nar- 

 row ; oesophagus dilated into a very large crop ; stomach a 

 strong gizzard ; intestine long and narrow ; coeca very small. 

 Nostrils linear. Eyes of moderate size. Head small, oblong ; 

 neck of moderate length ; body rather slender. Feet short ; 

 tarsus as short as the hind toe and claw, anteriorly scutel- 

 late ; outer toe slightly shorter than the inner ; claws rather 

 short, stout, arched, obtuse. Plumage compact, blended but 

 firm beneath ; wings long, the first and second quills longest ; 

 tail long, cuneate, pointed, of twelve or fourteen feathers. 



150. ECTOPISTES MIGRATORIA. LONG-TAILED PASSENGER 

 PIGEON. 



Tail of twelve feathers. Male with the upper part and sides 

 of the head light blue ; throat, fore neck, and breast, light 

 brownish-red ; sides and lower wing-coverts light blue ; ab- 

 domen and lower tail-coverts white ; upper parts greyish- 

 blue ; lower part of neck behind and along the sides changing 

 to gold, emerald-green, and rich crimson ; some of the wing- 

 coverts with a black spot ; quills and larger coverts blackish- 

 brown ; primaries edged with blue at the base, with reddish- 

 white toward the end ; middle tail-feathers bluish-black, the 

 rest pale blue at the base, with a patch of red and a band of 

 black on the inner web, white in the rest of their extent. 

 Female with the tints much duller. 



Male, 16J, 25, 8^, T 8 , H> IT*' iV F e male ? 15 > 23. 



This species is abundantly dispersed over North America. 

 Dr Fleming, in his History of British Animals, gives an ac- 

 count of an individual, which " was shot while perched on a 



