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ground, and lays from 9 to 12 eggs. Despite its 

 persecution by the ubiquitous gunners, to say 

 nothing of its winged and four-footed enemies, 

 this splendid game bird seems to be holding its 

 own in this locality. 



315. Ectopistes migratorius (Linn.). Passenger Pigeon; 



"Wild Pigeon." — I have not been able to learn 

 anything definite about the occurrence of this 

 bird in Kings County years ago when the species 

 frequented the pTovince. The following informa- 

 tion applies to New Albany, a small settlement in 

 the adjoining county of Annapolis, ten miles south 

 of Middleton and about eight miles westward of 

 the Kings-Annapolis Counties line. Although not 

 actually referring to Kings County it is worthy 

 of preservation as the latest occurrence known to 

 me of this extinct species in this locality. During 

 the boyhood of my father. Prof. J. F. Txifts of 

 Acadia University, who was born at New Albany 

 in 1843, flocks of "wild pigeons" were not uncom- 

 mon there, though they were not seen in large 

 numbers. The last time he can recollect having 

 seen one of these flocks was in the autumn of 1855, 

 when twenty or more of the birds alighted on the 

 limbs of a huge dead pine. They remained there 

 for some moments until alarmed by a gunshot 

 from the thick undergrowth beneath the tree. 

 Three of the birds were seen to drop. My father 

 ran over to the tree and found there an old Indian 

 trapper with a wounded pigeon in each hand and 

 the third Ijang dead beside him. 



316. Zenaidura macroura carolinensis (Linn.). — Mourning 



Dove. — Rare and irregular; two records only. 

 One taken on the Grand Pre, Oct. 1896 (H. F. T.), 



