PLATE XV. — THE LAST PASSENGER PIGEON. 



The only living specimen now l<nown to exist. The long, elegant 

 tail feathers have been broken off in the cage. This is a 

 female in the Cincinnati Zoological Garden. (From a photo- 

 graph made and copyrighted by Enno Meyer, Cincinnati, 

 0., 191 I.) The immense hosts of the Passenger Pigeon, 

 formerly one of the greatest zoological wonders of the world, 

 are now extinct. 



