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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  Port 
  Ewen,N. 
  Y. 
  Spring 
  of 
  1904. 
  70-80 
  seen. 
  Mershon, 
  Passenger 
  Pigeon. 
  1907. 
  p. 
  184 
  

   Sullivan 
  CO., 
  N. 
  Y. 
  Fall 
  1904. 
  Large 
  flock 
  seen. 
  " 
  " 
  " 
  " 
  183 
  

  

  West 
  Point. 
  1905. 
  2 
  seen. 
  " 
  " 
  " 
  " 
  180 
  

  

  Catskill. 
  Spring 
  1905. 
  Flock 
  seen. 
  " 
  " 
  " 
  " 
  183 
  

  

  Sullivan 
  CO. 
  Fall 
  1905. 
  Flock 
  seen. 
  " 
  " 
  " 
  " 
  183 
  

  

  Prattsburg, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  April 
  1906. 
  Large 
  flock 
  seen 
  (Burroughs). 
  Mershon, 
  Passenger 
  

  

  Pigeon, 
  1907. 
  p. 
  181 
  

   Kingston, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  May 
  15, 
  1906. 
  Flock 
  mile 
  long 
  seen 
  (Burroughs). 
  Mershon, 
  Passen- 
  

   ger 
  Pigeon. 
  1907. 
  p. 
  181 
  

   Sullivan 
  co., 
  N. 
  Y. 
  May 
  23, 
  1907. 
  Flock 
  of 
  1000 
  seen. 
  Burroughs, 
  Outlook, 
  July 
  13, 
  

  

  1907. 
  p. 
  547 
  

   Rensselaerville, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  Summer 
  1907. 
  i 
  seen. 
  (Huyck). 
  Judd, 
  Birds 
  of 
  Albany 
  Co. 
  p- 
  136 
  

  

  It 
  is 
  possible 
  that 
  some 
  of 
  these 
  records, 
  when 
  the 
  birds 
  were 
  merely 
  

   seen, 
  are 
  in 
  error, 
  but 
  Mr 
  Wilbur's 
  specimen, 
  which 
  I 
  saw 
  killed, 
  was 
  un- 
  

   questionably 
  reared 
  in 
  the 
  spring 
  of 
  1898, 
  as 
  it 
  was 
  just 
  assuming 
  the 
  

   adult 
  plumage, 
  and 
  a 
  few 
  scattered 
  birds 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  may 
  still 
  be 
  in 
  

   existence, 
  but 
  we 
  very 
  much 
  fear 
  that 
  the 
  Passenger 
  pigeon 
  is 
  doomed 
  to 
  

   extermination. 
  

  

  Zenaidura 
  macroura 
  carolinensis 
  (Linnaeus) 
  

   Mourning 
  Dove 
  

  

  Plate 
  42 
  

  

  Columba 
  carolinensis 
  Linnaeus. 
  Syst. 
  Nat. 
  Ed. 
  12. 
  1766. 
  1:286 
  

   Ectopistcs 
  carolinensis 
  DeKay. 
  Zool. 
  N. 
  Y. 
  1844. 
  pt 
  2, 
  p. 
  197, 
  fig. 
  166 
  

   Zenaidura 
  macroura 
  A. 
  O. 
  U. 
  Check 
  List. 
  Ed. 
  2. 
  1895. 
  No. 
  316 
  

  

  zenaidu'ra, 
  from 
  Zenaida, 
  name 
  of 
  an 
  allied 
  dove, 
  and 
  Gr. 
  ovpa, 
  tail 
  

  

  Description. 
  Tail 
  long, 
  pointed, 
  of 
  14 
  tapering 
  feathers; 
  wings 
  pointed, 
  

   the 
  second 
  priinaries 
  longest, 
  the 
  first 
  and 
  third 
  almost 
  equal 
  to 
  it; 
  tarsus 
  

   naked, 
  scutellate 
  in 
  front, 
  shorter 
  than 
  middle 
  toe, 
  but 
  longer 
  than 
  lateral 
  

   toes; 
  outer 
  toe 
  shorter 
  than 
  inner; 
  bill 
  shorter 
  than 
  head, 
  slender; 
  bare 
  

   space 
  above 
  the 
  eye. 
  In 
  general 
  form 
  and 
  color 
  much 
  like 
  the 
  Passenger 
  

   pigeon, 
  but 
  in 
  structure 
  quite 
  different. 
  Male: 
  Upper 
  parts, 
  including 
  central 
  

   tail 
  feathers, 
  bluish 
  gray, 
  shaded 
  with 
  olive-brown; 
  head 
  and 
  neck 
  over- 
  

   laid 
  with 
  glaucous 
  blue; 
  sides 
  of 
  neck 
  with 
  shining 
  iridescence; 
  a 
  bluish 
  

   black 
  spot 
  under 
  the 
  ear; 
  scapulars 
  and 
  wing 
  coverts 
  with 
  a 
  few 
  black 
  spots; 
  

   tail 
  feathers, 
  except 
  the 
  iniddle 
  ones, 
  grayish 
  blue 
  for 
  the 
  basal 
  portion, 
  then 
  

   banded 
  with 
  black 
  and 
  tipped 
  with 
  white 
  ; 
  forehead 
  and 
  under 
  parts 
  vinaceous, 
  

   becoming 
  ocherous 
  on 
  the 
  bellv; 
  bill 
  black, 
  angle 
  of 
  mouth 
  carmine; 
  

  

  