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HISTORY OF 



MIGRATORY PIGEON. 



Columba Migratoria. LINN^US. 



WE are enabled to number this bird in our list as an occa- 

 sional visitant, together with the greater part of those spoken 

 of in this work. It is an inhabitant of the American Continent, 

 being found over a great part of its vast extent. It associates 

 in great numbers during the time of their incubation and 

 migrations. Wilson, in his usual spirited style, says, " I have 

 witnessed these migrations in the Genesee Country, often in 

 Pennsylvania, and also in various parts of Virginia, with amaze- 

 ment ; but all that I had then seen of them were mere straggling 

 parties, compared with the congregated millions which I have 

 since beheld in our western forests, in the Ohio, Kentucky, and 

 the Indiana Territory. These fertile and extensive regions 



