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wings ; but I could not perceive that it had either note or 

 song. I shot three, one male and two females. I have no 

 doubt that they breed in those solitary swamps, as well as 

 many other of their associates. 



The pine-swamp warbler is four inches and a quarter long 

 and seven inches and a quarter in extent ; bill, black, not 

 notched, but furnished with bristles ; upper parts, a deep 

 green olive, with slight bluish reflections, particularly on the 

 edges of the tail and on the head ; wings, dusky, but so 

 broadly edged with olive green as to appear wholly of that 

 tint ; immediately below the primary coverts, there is a single 

 triangular spot of yellowish white ; no other part of the wings 

 is white ; the three exterior tail-feathers with a spot of white 

 on their inner vanes ; the tail is slightly forked ; from the 

 nostrils over the eye extends a fine line of white, and the 

 lower eyelid is touched with the same tint ; lores, blackish ; 

 sides of the neck and auriculars, green olive ; whole lower 

 parts, pale yellow ochre, with a tinge of greenish ; duskiest 

 on the throat ; legs, long, and flesh coloured. 



The plumage of the female differs in nothing from that of 

 the male. 



PASSENGER PIGEON. (Columba migratoria.) 



PLATE XLIV.— Fig. 1. 



Catesby, i. 23.— Linn. Syst. 285.— Turton, 479.—Arct. Zool. p. 322, No. 187.— 

 Bnss. i. 100.— Buff. ii. 527.— Peak's Museum, No. 5084. 



ECTOPISTES MIGRATORIA— SwAiNSON.f 



Ectopistes, Swain. N. Groups, Zool. Journ. No. xi. p. 362. — Columba migratoria, 

 Bonap. Synop. p. 120.— The Passenger Pigeon, Aud. Om. Biog. i. p. 319, 

 male and female. — Columba (Ectopistes) migratoria, North. Zool. ii. p. 363. 



This remarkable bird merits a distinguished place in the 

 annals of our feathered tribes, — a claim to which I shall 

 endeavour to do justice; and though it would be impossible, 



* In all the large natural groups which have already come under our 

 notice, we have seen a great variation of form, though the essential 

 parts of it were always beautifully kept up. In the present immense 



