CHECK LIST OF NEW YORK BIRDS 285 
Order Columbae Pigeons 
Family COLUMBIDAE Pigeons 
177 (315) *Passenger pigeon! 
Ectopistes migratorius (Linn.) 
178 (316) *Mourning dove 
Zenaidura macroura (Linn.) 
Order Raptores Birds of prey 
Family CATHARTIDAE American vultures 
179 (325) Turkey vulture 
Cathartes aura (Linn.) 
180 (326) Black vulture 
Catharista urubu (Vicill.) 
1In the oological collection of Princeton university there is an egg of this species 
taken on Moose river 20 miles east of Brownsville (N. Y.) 18 May 1878. A small colony 
bred in Eastern Ontario in 1898. See Nash’s Birds of Ontario, 1900, p. 27. 
