A'o.4.J COUES'S ORNITH. BIBLIOGRAPHY COLUMBID^. 805 



1876. Eeid, p. Pigeons [Ectopistes migratorius]— Food in Crop. < Eod and Gun, 

 vii, Jan. 8, 1876, p. 227. See also p. 277. 



Esplaining "rice" found in pigeon's stomachs, supposed by Audubon and others to prove 

 enormous velocity of the bird's flight. 



1876. Sterling, E. Passenger Pigeons [Ectopistes migratorius] and Rice. < Eod 



and Gun, vii, Jan. 29, 1876, p. 277. 

 Eeply to Eeid, concerning ' ' rice in crops ", and velocity of flight. See p. 227. 



1876. ''Tom Tramp." A pigeon [Ectopistes migratorius] roost. <^ Bod and Gun, \ui, 



June 3, 1876, p. 149. 

 Breeding of, and statistics of capture and decrease of this species in Illinois. 



1877. COUES, E. Melopelia leucoptera in Colorado. < Bull. Mitt. Ornith. Chit, ii, 



No. 3, July, 1877, p. 83. 



1877. CouES, E. Leptoptila albifrons, a Pigeon new to the United States Fauna. 



< Bull. Nuti. Ornith. GUI, ii, No. 3, July, 1877, pp. 82, 83. 



Taken in Texas by G. B. Sennett. Soon afterward made type of a new genus, ^chmoptila, 

 Cones, Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., iv. No. 1, 1878, p. 48 {=JEngyptila, Sundev., Tentamen, 1872, 

 p. 156.) 



1877. Rowley, G.D. Geotrygon costaricensis (Lawrence). <^Bowl. Orn. Misc., ni, 



pt. xi, Nov., 1877, pp. 43-46, pi. Ixsxvii. 



Copy of orig. descr. in Ann. N. Y. Lye, ix, 1868, p. 136, with a colored fig. of the bird, and 

 notes by A. Boucard. 



1878. FiROR, V. M. Chameoepelia passerina. <^ Familiar Science and Fancier's Jou7ii., 



U.S., V, Apr., 1878, p. 86. 



1878. Grinnell, G. B. The Ground Dove (Chamaepeleia passerina) in New York. 



< Bull. Nutt. Ornith. Clui, iii. No. 3, July, 1878, p. 147, 



In New York City, Oct., 1862 ; specimen identified by J. "W". Audubon; now first recorded. 

 1878. McL[ellan, I.] The Wild or Passenger Pigeon (Columha [Ectopistes] migra- 

 toria). <^ Forest and Stream, ix, Jan. 31, 1878, p. 488. 



1878. Owen, T. M. Among the Pigeons [Ectopistes migratorius, in Ohio]. <^ Forest 



and Stream, x. May 23, 1878, p. 297. 

 1878. Rowley, G. D. Chlorcenas subvinacea. Lawrence. <^Boivl. Orn. Misc., iii, 



pt. xii, Jan., 1878, pp. 75, 76, pi. xci. 

 Copy of orig. descr. ia Ann. N. Y. Lye. Nat. Hist, ix, Apr., 1868, p. 135, with colored plate, 



and a note from A. Boucard. 



1878. Rowley, G. D. Geotrygon rufiventris, Lawrence. <^Bowl. Orn. Misc., iii, j)t. 

 xii, Jan., 1878, pp. 77, 78, pi. xcii. 



Copy of orig. descr. in Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., xi, 1875, with a colored plate, and note by 

 A. Boucard. 



1878. Rowley, G. D. Leptoptila cassini, Lawrence. <^Bowl. Orn. Misc., iii, pt. xii, 

 Jan., 1878, pp. 79, 80, pi. xciii. 



1878. Sterling, E. [Acoms of the black-jack oak as] Food of the Wild Pigeon 



[Ectopistes migratorius]. < Fo7-est and Stream, x. Mar. 14, 1878, p. 95. 



1879. Knapp, H. Statement about the Wild Pigeon [Ectopistes migratorius]. <^ For- 



est and Stream, xii, Mar. 27, 1879, p. 146. 

 Taken from some Central New York newspaper, either Buffalo or Rochester, I think. 

 1879. McQuillen, J. H. Recovery of all the Faculties in a Pigeon from which four- 

 fifths of the upper portion of the Cerebrum had been removed. <| Proc. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci. Phila., Oct., 1878, (pub. 1879), pp. 342-346. 

 1879. Thompson, F. J. Incubation [of Ectopistes migratorius] under Difficulties. 

 <| Forest and Stream, xii. May 8, 1879, p. 265. 



Account of its breeding, in March, in an open air aviary In the Cinoinnati Zoological 

 Garden. 



