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exceedingly wary and difficult to approach. When startled they 

 flew long distances, lit in dense cover, and probably ran. for I 

 was never able to flush one a second time. Several broods were 

 seen, never composed of more than four or five young. One 

 specimen was secured (no. 15613), a Juvenal male, about half 

 grown, .shot on September 1. 



Columba fasciata Say 

 Band-tailed Pigeon 



Common in the vicinity of Parksville and Errington in April 

 and May, when several specimens were taken. On May 24 

 .Miss Alexander saw near P>rington a flock numbering about a 

 hundred birds. Common at Beaver Creek but no longer gathered 

 in flocks, and probably breeding in the vicinity, though the 

 females secured did not appear to be breeding birds. They 

 frequented certain patches of swampy lowlands, feeding on 

 salmon-berries and gooseberries, and were vigilant and hard to 

 approach. At the first alarm they took refuge in the tops of the 

 numerous tall dead fir trees standing everywhere in the valley, 

 where they were quite safe from molestation. 



In the Golden Eagle basin two birds seen on July 12 were the 

 only ones noted, but the caretaker at the mine told us that later 

 in the summer, when the berries were ripe at this altitude and 

 about exhausted in the lowlands, the pigeons became quite 

 numerous for a few weeks. 



At Nootka Sound but a single bird was seen, at the head of 

 the Tahsis Canal on July 27. At Errington in September only 

 occasional small flocks or single birds were seen, and I was told 

 that they departed altogether during tin- winter months. A 

 single bird was seen near the summit of .Mount Arrowsmith on 

 September 7. 



Seven specimens were secured (nos. 15614— 15620), two males 

 and five females, all adult. 



Zenaidura macroura carolinensis (Linnaeus) 

 Mourning Dove 

 I saw a single bird in the town of Alberni on the evening of 

 June 14, feeding in the road near the hotel. The species was not 

 met with elsewhere during the summer. 



