BIRDS OF THE CAMBRIDGE REGION. 179 



77. Zenaidura macroura (Linn.). 

 Mourning Dove. Carolina Dove. 



Rather rare transient visitor in spring and autumn. 



SEASONAL OCCURRENCE. 



April 8, 1881, one male 1 taken, Belmont, H. M. Spelman. 

 June 18, 1883, one seen, East Lexington, W. Brewster. 



September 18, 1868, one seen, Brickyard Swamp, W. Brewster. 

 November 15, 1898, one seen near Payson Park, W. Faxon. 



NESTING DATES. 



May 8 — 20. 



Although the Carolina Dove is a common summer resident of several local- 

 ities in Concord and Lincoln, it seldom visits the Cambridge Region. I have 

 met writh it here on but four occasions — September 18, 1868, when I saw a 

 single bird flying low over the Brickyard Swamp, Cambridge ; September 19 of 

 the same year, when another (or perhaps the same) bird was seen in the same 

 place; September, 1878, or 1879, when, as I was driving through Brattle Street, 

 Cambridge, a Dove flew close past me and disappeared among the pines at Elm- 

 wood ; June 18, 1883, when I started a bird in East Lexington, on the western 

 edge of Rock Meadow. Mr. Walter Faxon tells me that he has personally noted 

 only three birds, the first on September 26, 1 890, near the Waverley Oaks ; the 

 second on April 18, 1897, at the Mystic Ponds ; the third on November 15, 1898, 

 near Payson Park, Belmont. 



I have a female Dove (in my mounted collection) which was taken by my 

 friend, Mr. C. M. Carter, on April 19, 1873, in an apple orchard in Belmont, about 

 half a mile to the westward of Fresh Pond, and Mr. H. M. Spelman possesses 

 the badly mutilated skin of a male which he shot at close range, on April 8, 1881, 

 in dense pine woods near Arlington Heights. On April 9, 1887, a bird was 

 seen by Dr. Arthur P. Chadbourne on the Fitchburg Railroad embankment a 

 little to the eastward of the station in Belmont, and on October 7, 1902, another 

 was flushed by Mr. Richard S. Eustis in a thicket lying between the Glacialis 

 and Fresh Pond in Cambridge. 



1 No. 379, collection of H. M. Spelman. 



