ON THE PASSENGER-PIGEON OF THE UNITED STATES. 



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EXHIBITIONS AND NOTICES. 



March 8th, 1921. 



Sir S. F. Harmer, K.B.E., F.R.S., Yice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



In the absence of the donor, Dr. R. W. Shufeldt, C.M.Z.S., 

 three photographs of the last of the Passenger- Pigeons (Eclopisles 

 migratorius) presented by him to the Society, were exhibited by 

 Dr. P. Chalmers Mitchell, C.B.E., F.R.S., who read the follow- 

 ing notes from Dr. Shufeldt : — " The specimen was a female which 



Text-figure 1. 



Passenger-Pigeon {Ectopistes migratorius). 



died in the Zoological Gardens of Cincinnati in September 1913, 

 where she had lived in captivity for a number of years with 



