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visiting or breeding in almost every quarter of the United 

 States. 



Captain James Ross, in the Natural History portion of 

 the Appendix to the Narrative of the second voyage by Sir 

 John Ross, says of this Pigeon, " A young male bird 

 flew on board the Victory during a storm, whilst crossing 

 Baffin's Bay in latitude 73i N. on the 31st of July, 1829. 

 It has never before been seen beyond the sixty-second de- 

 gree of north latitude ; and the circumstance of our having 

 met with it so far to the northward, is a singular and in- 

 teresting fact." Dr. Richardson, in the Appendix to Cap- 

 tain Back's Narrative, referring to this occurrence of the 

 Passenger Pigeon, remarks, " that it flew on board the 

 Victory during a storm, and must have strayed from a 

 great distance. The wind, as we find by a reference to Sir 

 John Rosses Narrative, blew from the north-east at the 

 beginning of the gale, shifting afterwards to the eastward. 

 As the Victory was to the northward of the island of Disco 

 at the time, if the bird came in either of these directions, it 

 must have taken flight from the northern part of Green- 

 land, but it is not likely to have found food on that barren 

 coast."" M. Temminck, in the recently published fourth 

 part of his Manual of Birds found in Europe, says, this 

 bird has been taken both in Norway and in Russia. Dr. 

 Fleming, in his History of British Animals, page 145, says, 

 " I have to add the occurrence of a single individual, of a 

 species hitherto unknown, even as a straggler, the Pas- 

 senger Pigeon, Golumba migratoria. It was shot, while 

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

 at Westhall, in the parish of Monymeal, Fifeshire, the 31st 

 of December, 1825. The feathers were quite fresh and 

 entire, like those of a wild bird." This species is therefore 

 included in this History of British Birds. 



