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PASSENGER PIGEON. 



Columba canadensis. Linii, Syst. Nat, 1. 284. 30. female. 

 Gmel. Si/st. Nat, I. 785. female.— La^^. Itid. Orn. 2. 613. 72. 

 female. 



CEnas Americana. Briss. Orn. 1. 100. 12. male. 

 Turtur Canadensis. Briss. Orn. 1. 118. 21. female. 

 Pigeon de Passage. Buff. Ois. 2. 527- male. 

 Tourterelle du Canada. Buff. PI. Enl. 176. female. Buff. Ois. 

 2. 552, female. 



Canada Turtle. Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 19O. female. Lath, Gen. 



Syn, 4. 658. 58. female. 

 Passenger or Migratory Pigeon. Phil. Trans, v. 62. jo. 398. — 



Penii, Arct. Zool. 2. I87. — Catesb. Carol. 1. pi. 23. — Lath. 



Gen. Syn. 4. 66I. 61. — Bing. Anim, Biog, 2. p. 225. — Wils. 



Amer. Orn, V. p. 102, pi. XLIV.f. 1. 



The Passenger Pigeon, and the Canada Turtle- 

 Dove, appear to be the two sexes of this bird, the 

 latter being the female : the male is about fourteen 

 inches in length : its beak is black : bare space round 

 the eyes crimson : irides orange : the head, throat, 

 hind-part of the neck, back, rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts, cinereous : wing-coverts the same, 

 varied with black spots: sides of the neck of a 

 glossy variable purple : fore-part of the neck and 

 breast vinaceous : belly, sides, thighs, and under 

 tail-coverts, the same, but paler: quills black- 

 brown, with whitish edges: the two middle tail- 

 feathers blackish ; the rest of a grey-brown, greenish 

 at the base of the interior webs ; with a reddish 

 spot ; beneath which is a spot of black : the feet 

 are red, and the claws black. The female, which 

 is scarcely so large as the male, differs somewhat 

 in her plumage : she has the top of her head, the 

 back of the neck, the shoulders, and the greater 



