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Young (sexes alike) . — Somewhat like the adult female but scapu- 

 lars, wing-coverts, and feathers of foreneck and chest tipped with 

 dull whitish, and primaries broadly margined with cinnamon or 

 avellaneus, the shorter quills with distal portion of outer webs almost 

 wholly of this color; iris pinkish cream color or brownish with an 

 outer ring of red; legs and feet pale pinkish brown to pale dull 

 salmon-pink, the scutella more brownish. 



Now extinct, the last living specimen having died in the Cincinnati 

 Zoological Garden, September 1, 1914. Formerly perhaps the most 

 numerous of all birds, inhabiting practically the whole forested area 

 of eastern North America, breeding northward to middle western 

 Mackenzie (Fort Norman) , Keewatin (Severn River; Fort Churchill, 

 prior to 1845), northern Ontario (Moose Factory), Quebec (Point de 

 Monts; Chambly), northern Maine, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, 

 southward to Kansas, northern Mississippi, Kentucky, and Pennsyl- 

 vania; migrating southward to the Gulf coas't (Florida to Texas), 

 casually to Cuba (near Havana), eastern Mexico (Puebla; Jalapaand 

 Orizaba, Vera Cruz), and Guatemala (near Guatemala City) ?; west- 

 ward, regularly, along the Missouri River to eastern Montana and to 

 western Texas (Frio Canyon, Tom Green County, 1881), accidentally 

 to Nevada (West Humboldt Mts., Sept. 10, 1867), Wyoming (Horse- 

 shoe Creek, 40 miles west of Laramie, Sept. 16, 1859), eastern Oregon 

 (Pack River, June 17, 1861), western Washington (Puget Sound, June 

 29, 1859), and British Columbia. Accidental in British Islands (six 

 records), France, Austria, Norway, Russia, and Bermudas. 



[Columba] macroura Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 164, part (as based 

 on Palumbus migratorius Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carolina, I, 23, pi. 23). 



Ectopistes macrourus Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xix, Feb. 26, 1906, 44 (dis- 

 cussion of nomenclature on p. 43). 



Ectopistes macrura Coubs, Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., iv, July 29, 

 1878, 628 (Pembina and Turtle Mt., North Dakota, May-July; Rocky Mts., 

 lat. 49°, Aug. 23). 



E[ctopistes] macrura Jordan, Man. Vertebrates, 4th ed., 1884, 116. 



[Columba] canadensis Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, i, 1766, 284 (=female; based on 

 Turtur canadensis Brisson, Orn., i, 118). — Gmelln, Syst. Nat., i, pt. 2, 1789, 

 785.— Latham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 613. 



Columba canadensis Temminck, Cat. Syst., 1807, 141; Hist. Nat. Pig. et Gallin., 

 i, 1813, 346.— Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxvi, 1818, 377. 



Ectopistes canadensis Coues, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, April, 1880, 100, in text. 



[Columba] migratoria Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, i, 1766, 285 (=adult male; 

 Canada and South Carolina; based on Palumbus migratorius Catesby, Nat. 

 Hist. Carolina, i, 23, pi. 23; etc.).— Gmejun, Syst. Nat., i, pt. 2, 1789, 789.— 

 Latham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 612. 



Columba migratoria Temminck and Knip, Pigeons, i, fam. seconde, 1808-11, 

 pis. 48, 49.— Wilson, Am. Orn., v, 1812, 102, pi. 44, fig. 1.— Temminck, 

 Hist. Nat. Pig. et Gallin., i, 1813, 346; Man. d'Orn., iv, 1840, 309.— Vieillot, 

 Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxvi, 1818, 369.— Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool., 

 xi, 1819, 93.— Bonaparte, Ann, Lye. N. Y., ii, 1826, 120.— Audubon, 



