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p 1885, April 18, September 27 (twenty), September 28 (fifty) 

 and the last on September 30 at Mt. Carmel. 



1885, September 19. Last seen at St. Louis by the writer. 



1888, October 31. Mr. Jasper Blines of Alexandria, Clark 

 Co., Mo., writes in Forest and Stream, vol. 31, p. 343: "During 

 the whole year I have seen but few passenger pigeons. They 

 were in former years very numerous here and could be seen in 

 flocks composed of millions of birds every spring and fall." 



1893. Last shipment of Wild Pigeons received at St. Louis 

 by N. W. Judy & Co., the game dealers, who handled more 

 dead and live pigeons than any other firm in the country, and 

 who had their netters employed all the year around, tracing 

 the pigeons to Michigan and Wisconsin in spring and to the 

 Indian Territory and the south in winter. Silvan Springs, 

 Ark., from where the last shipment was received according to 

 Judy's letter to Mr. R. Deane (Auk, vol. 12, p. 298), is only 

 twenty-five miles south of the southwest corner of the state. 



1894, April 15. Mr. E. S. Currier sees ten pigeons at Keokuk, 

 his first since 1888. 



1896, May 19. The same sees one among doves, and again 

 one October 18 of the same year. 



1896, September 17. Mr. W. Praeger shoots a male near 

 Keokuk. 



1896, December 17. Out of a flock of fifty near Attic, Oregon 

 Co., Mo., Mr. Chas. U. Holden, Jr., kills a pair and sends them 

 in the flesh to Mr. R. Deane of Chicago (Auk vol. 14, p. 317). 



1897, August 17. A flock of 75-100 is seen twenty-five miles 

 west of our state line in Johnson Co., Neb. 



1902, September 26. Last seen at New Haven by Dr. Eim- 

 beck. 



*316. Zenaidura maceoura (Linn.). Mourning Dove. 



Columba macroura. Columba carolinensis. Zenaidura carolinensis. Caro- 

 lina Dove. 



Geog. Dist. — Breeds from Mexico and Cuba throughout the 

 United States to Quebec, Manitoba and British Columbia and 

 winters from about lat. 40° southward to the West Indies and 

 Panama. 



In Missouri the Dove still remains a common summer resident 

 in spite of almost constant persecution, not only in the prairie 

 and border regions, but on all cultivated ground throughout the 



