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Agricultural College, 

 Ingham Co., Mich., June 17, 1905. 

 Mr. W. B. Mershon, Saginaw,, Mich. 



Dear Sir: — Yours of the i6th is at hand and in 

 reply I would say that the Carolina dove is rarely 

 found north of the Au Sable River, and I should not 

 expect ever to see it there in flocks in the spring; on 

 the other hand it is just as likely to be found early in 

 the season as the Passenger Pigeon, since the Carolina 

 dove winters regularly in southern Michigan and is 

 one of the first birds to appear In the spring in this 

 county, in fact not infrequently staying here through 

 the winter. On the whole, however, I think there can 

 be little doubt that Mr. King's report relates to the Pas- 

 senger Pigeon and not to the dove. I have had some 

 photographs taken of the Carolina dove and Passenger 

 Pigeon together, and will ask my assistant, Mr. Myers, 

 to mail you prints of these within a few days as soon as 

 he has time to make some good ones. If these do not 

 show what you desire we will try again. 

 Yours very truly, 



Walter B. Burrows, 

 Professor of Zoology. 



Mr. George E. Atkinson, to whom I am Indebted 

 for much valuable data in this book, writes from 

 Portage La Prairie, Manitoba, July 21, 1905, as 

 follows : 



