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This Gallinule ranges over Africa from Senegal and Abys- 

 sinia southwards ; also to Madagascar. It has occasionally 

 been met with in southern Europe. 



Order COLUMBIFORMES. 



Family COLUMBID^. 



Ectopistes migratorius. Passenger- Pigeon. 



Columlba migratoria Linnwus, Syst. Nat. 12th ed. i. 

 1766, p. 285 : E. North America. 



Ectopistes migratorius {Linn.) ; B. 0. IT. List, 1st ed. 1883, 

 p. 140; Salmdori, Cat. Birds B. M. xxi. 1893, p. 369; 

 Saunders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 487, 



Some eight examples have been reported to have been 

 taken in the British Islands, the earliest in Fife in 1825, 

 the last shot by Lord Henry Phipps at Mulgrave, near 

 Whitby, in Yorkshire, Oct. 1876. There can be little 

 reasonable doubt that these birds had all escaped from 

 captivity. 



The Passenger-Pigeon bred formerly from Mackenzie and 

 Quebec south to Kansas and New York, and wintered rather 

 farther south to Texas and Florida. It is now almost 

 certainly extinct. 



Order TURNICIFOEMES. 



Family TUENKJID^. 



Turnix sylvatica. Andalusian Hemipode or 

 Button -Quail. 



Tetrao sylvatiCUS Desfontaines, Hist, de I'Acad. Roy. des 

 Sciences, Paris, for'l787, 1789, p. 500 : Barbary. 



Tui-nix sylvatica (Des/.); B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 146 ; 

 OgiUie-Qrant, Cat. Birds B. M. xxii. 1893, p. 537; Saun- 

 ders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 506. 



Two examples are recorded from Oxfordshire, Oct. 1844, 



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