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brood seems to be the second of the season. The phoebe seldom 

 uses the same nest twice because before the second birds are old 

 enough to fly the nest becomes infested with small black lice. 



Pigeon, Passenger (Ectopistes migratorins) 



This beautiful bird is now almost certainly extinct. It is 

 believed that the last bird died in the Cincinnati Zoological Park, 

 September 1, 1914. The latest record of it in New York is for 

 1898. In 1868 there was a great nesting of these pigeons in Alle- 

 gany county. A single tree in some cases had 30 to 40 nests. 

 The nesting tract was 14 miles long. Birds were killed and 

 shipped to New York City by the carload. There was a very 

 large roost in Steuben county in 1875, but probably no breeding. 

 Immense flocks were common in colonial days and great roosts 

 continued to be common through the first half of the nineteenth 

 century. 15-17.25 



Call no, 



Nu PmP8 Adult with Other Pigeons in Nesting House. From nega- 

 tive owned by R. W. Hegner Widman 



The passenger pigeon is the one with a long tail on the highest 

 roost. Compare with the common pigeons. 



Nu PmP Adult (museum specimen). Photographed in the Ameri- 

 can Museum of Natural History 



Pintail (Dafila acuta) 



A fairly common migrant in the coastal region and more com- 

 mon in the marshes of western New York. At dusk it comes into 

 shallow water to feed. It appears in small flocks during the 

 spring and fall migration. ^ 26-30 ; $ 20-24 



Nu Pn Male on Plank (captive). Ithaca. (June 25, 1918) Allen 



Note the size of the feet and the position of the legs of the 

 pintail and the teal and compare with those of the canvasback, 

 which is a diving duck. 



Nu Pnl Female on Plank (captive). Ithaca. (June 25, 1918) Allen 



Nu Pn8 Two Banded Females in Flight, Released for Study of Mi- 

 gration. Ithaca. (March 18, I9l8) Allen 



