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MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



One pair taken on Vancouver Island and presented to the 

 Museum by Mr. J. Fannin. 



Order COLUMB^. Pigeons. 

 XXVII. Family COLUMBID.ffi. Pigeons. 

 CXV. COLUMBA Linn^us. 1758. 

 •312. Band-tailed Pigeon. 



Columba fasciata Say. I823. 



Never seen in large flocks in British Columbia. {Lord.) A 

 very common summer resident in the coast district ; flocks of 

 several hundred haye been seen sitting in the trees at one time. 

 {S^eator.) Irregular through the southern portions of British 

 Columbia ; a summer resident ; tolerably common. {Fannin.) 

 Abundant summer resident in Lower Fraser valley. {Brooks.) 

 Abundant on the south end of Vancouver Island. A summer 

 resident also on the mainland and in the valley of the Fraser 

 River. {Spreadborough.) 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



One taken at Agassiz, B. C, May 8th, 1889, by Mr. W. Spread- 

 borough. 



CXVI. ECTOPISTES Swainson. 1827. 



315. Passenger Pigeon. 



Ectopistes migratorms (Linn.) Swains. 1827. 



At one time breeding in Nova Scotia, but now scarcely if ever 

 seen. {Downs) Very seldom seen in New Brunswick now, but 

 formerly abundant. {Chamberlain.) Specimens obtained at Moose 

 Factory, Hudson Bay, by Drexler, August, i860. Verrill saw a 

 single individual at Heath Point, Anticosti, in i860. {Packard.) 

 Fort Churchill, Hudson Bay. {Clarke.) Charlesbourg, possibly 

 breeds in Quebec. {Dionne) Common migrant in the district of 

 Montreal, in 1862, {Dr. Hall.) Transient visitor ; scarce. Two 

 were shot the latter end of August, 1883, at Chambly, and 

 one was shot September 15th, 1885, on the spur of Mount Royal ; 



