COLUMBAE— COLUMBIDAE— ZENAIDURA CAROLINENSIS. 



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MELOPELIA LEUCOPTERA, Linn. 

 White-winged Wove. 



Melopelia leucoptera, Linn., Syst. Nat., i, 1758, 164 (Jamaica).— Bd., Birds N. A., 1858, 

 603.— Id., V. S. & Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1859, Birds, 21.— Xanttjs, 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. PUila., 1859, 305 (Cape Saint Lucas). — Coues, Proc 

 Acad. Nat. Sci. Pbila., 18GG, 93 (Eort Whipple, Ariz.).— Cooper, Birds Cal., 

 1870, 515.— Coues, Key N. A. Birds, 1872, 226— Bd., Brew., & Ridg., N. 

 A. Birds, iii, 1875, 376, pi. lviii, f. 4.— Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Specs., 1873, 

 Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 141. 



Columba leucoptera, Bd., Stans. Rep. Exp. Great Salt Lake, 1852, 326. 



In 1873, a single bird, shot on the Gila River in New Mexico, was the 

 only one seen. The White-winged Dove has been reported from as far north 

 as Santa F6, N. Mex. It, however, extends from Texas, in the southwest 

 part of which it is found rather numerously, along the southern line of New 

 Mexico and Arizona. In the last named Territory, it appears to be rather 

 common in the extreme southeastern part. Dr. Coues found evidence of its 

 breeding about Fort Whipple, but considered it as "rare". I found the old 

 and young in August in the region about Camp Lowell, frequenting the 

 groves of cottonwood. Some of the young were scarcely able to fly, and 

 kept in the dense thickets, whence the low, mournful notes of the old birds 

 were heard as they called to each other, or summoned their young from 

 place to place. The notes consist of several soft toned coos, usually three, 

 repeated regularly and at short intervals. 



No. 



Sex. 



Locality. 



Date. 



Collector. 



Wing. 



Tail. 



Bill. 



Tarsus. 



973 

 452 



$ 

 ^jun. 



Gila River, N. Mex... 

 Sienega, Ariz 



Oct. 28, 1S73 

 Aug. 2r, 1S74 



H. . W. Henshaw 



do 



6.23 

 6.60 



5-3- 

 4. 60 



0.79 

 0.75 



O.90 



1.02 



ZENAIDURA CAROLINENSIS (Linn.). 

 Carolina Dove. 



Columba carolinensis, LlNN., Syst. Nat., i, 1766, 286, No. 37. 



Ectopistes carolinensis, Woodu., Sitgreave's Exp. Zuni & Col. Riv., 1854, 92. — Newb., 

 P. R. R. Rep., vi, 1857, 92.— Heerm., P. R. R. Rep., x, pt. iv, 60. 



Zcnw.dura carolinensis, Bd., Ives' Col. Exped., 1857-58, pt. iv, 6. — Id., Birds N. A., 

 185S, 604.— Id., U. S. & Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1859, Birds, 21— 

 Xantus, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 192 (Fort Tejou, Cal.).— 



