ECTOPISTES MIGRATOEU, WILD PIGEON. 387 



wiDged Dov^e {Melopelia leucoptera)*. It has somewliat tlie general form 

 and appearance of the Carolina Dove, but may be recognized by the 

 broad, white, oblique bar on the wing. Audubon appears to have first 

 noticed it as a bird of this country, under, the name of Columha trudeaui, 

 and not long afterward attention was again called to it by Colonel 

 McCall. But it remained little known until Mr. Xantus sent a fine 

 suite to the Smithsonian, from Gape St. Lucas, where he found it 

 abundant. I rarely saw it in Arizona, where it reaches at least to the 

 latitude of Fort Whipple, and breeds in that vicinity. This I ascer- 

 tained by seeing a pair of squabs in a cage ; they had been captured 

 near by. Though only half-fledged, the white on the wing was already 

 evident. The eggs of this species are 1.25 inches long by 0.95 wide, 

 and, as usual, two in number; elliptical in shape, and of a pure, 

 glistening white. 



^ ECTOPISTES MIGRATOEIA, (Linn.) Sw. ' ' *' 

 Wild Pigeon; Passenger Pigeon. 



Columia canadensis, Linn., Syst. Nat. i, 1766, 284.— Cm., Syst. Nat. i, 1788, 785. 



CoJumba migratoria, Linn., Syst. Nat. i, 1766, 285 {Columha americana, Frisch, pi. 1-1'3; 

 K,\LM, It. ii, 527 ; (anas), Briss., i, 100 ; Palumbus migratorius, Cates., 23). — 

 Gm., Syst. Nat. i, 1788, 389.— FoRST., Pbilos. Tr. Ixii, 1772, 3;)8.— WlLS., Am. 

 Orn. i,"l808, 102, pi. 44, fig. 1.— Bp., Obs. Wils. lt--25, No. 179; Syn. 1828, 120.— 

 NUTT., i, 1832, 629.— AUD., Orn. Biog. i, 1831, 319 ; v, 1839, 561 ; pi. 62. 



Eetojnstes migratoria, Sw., Zool. Journ. iii, 1827, 355. — Sw. & Eicii., F. B. A. ii, 1831, 

 363.— Bp., List, 1838, 341 ; Consp. ii, 1854, 59.— Eeich., Syst. Av. pi. 249, figs. 1377, 

 1379.— AuD., Syn. 1839, 174; B. Am. v, 1842, 25, pi. 285.— Woodh., Sitgr. Eep. 

 1853, 92.— Bd., B. N. A. 1858, 600.— Coop. & Suck., N. H. Wash. Ter. 1860, 218 

 (Fort Laramie, Wyo., and Milk Eiver, Mont.).— Hayd., Eep. 1862, 171.— 

 Coop., Am. Nat. iii, 1869, 80 (Montana).— Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 235, No. 

 9281.— Coop., B. Cal. i, 1870, 511 (Puget's Sound).— Teippb, Pr. Ess. Inst, vi, 

 118.— Snow, B. Kans. 1873, —.—Cooes, Key, 1872, 225, fig, 145.— B. B. & E., 

 N. A. B. iii, 1874, 308, pi. 57, fig. 4 ; and of late writers generally. 



Peristera migratoria, ScHL., M. P.-B. x, 1873, 142. 



Sab. — The greater part of North America, but scarcely west of the Eocky Mountains 

 (Pacific coast, near latitude 49°, Cooper ; Neyada, Bidrjmaii). Cuba {Gundlach, Eej). i, , 

 1866, 102; J. f. 0. ix, 112). Accidental in Europe {Gould, B. Eur. pi. 247; Hariing,- 

 Mau. Br. Birds, 1872, 128). 



Lieutenant Warrenh Expedition. — 4856, 4857, mouth of Big Sioux River ; 5418, .above 

 the mouth of the Yellowstone Eiver. 



There is no present occasion to particularize the general eastern range 

 of this species by citing the authorities for its occurrence ; suffice it to 



* Columba leucoptera, Linn., Syst. Nat. i, 1866, 281 ("Asia," err. Turtur indicus fuscus, 

 Edw., 76 ; Columba indica, BTtiss., i, 105 ; Browne, Jam. 468). — Gm., Syst. N.at. i, 

 1788, 773.— Lath., Ind. Orn. ii, 1790, 595 (White-winged Pigeon, Gen. Syn. iv, 

 617).— Wagl., Syst. Av. 1827, Columba, No. 71.— McCall, Pr. Phila. Acad, iv, 

 1848, 64. 



Zenaida leucoptera. Gray, Gen. of Birds. 



Turtur leucopterus, GossE, B. Jamaica, 1847, 304. 



Melopelia leucoptera, Bp., Consp. Av. ii, 1854, 81.— ScL., P. Z. S. 1856, 309 (Cordova) ; 

 1858, 305 (Oaxaca).— Bd., B. N. A. 1858, 603.— Xantus, Pr. Phila. Acad. 1S59 

 (Cape St. Lucas).— Tayi-or, Ibis, 1860, ii, 227 (Honduras).— March, Pr. Phila. 

 Acad. 1863, 302 (Jamaica), — Lawr., Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix, 139 (Costa Eica) ; 20/ 

 (Yucatan).— CouES, Pr. Phila, Acad. 1866, 93 (Arizona).— Coop., B. Cal. i, 1870, 

 515.— COUES, Key, 1872, 226.— Schl., M. P.-B. s, 1873, 152.— B. B. & E., N. A. 

 B. iii, 1874, 376. 



{?}CoUmba hoilotl, GM., Syst. Nat. i, 17fi8, 777.— Lath., Ind. Orn, ii, 1700, 601 (White- 

 shouldered Pigeon, Gen. Syn. iv, 654). 



Columba trudeaui, AuD., B. Am. vii, 1843, 352, pi. 496, 



Mab. — Southern and Lower California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. South- 

 through Mexico to Central America. Also, Cuba ,aud Jamaica. 



