USEI-UL IMRDS 
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THE MOURNING DOVE. 
It is unfortunate that the 
Mourning Dove has 1)een so long 
included amongst our game birds, 
as it deserves protection, and we 
are g*lad to note that 1)v an act of 
the Minnesota Legislature at its 
1915 session it was placed upon 
the constantly protected list. A 
bulletin from the United States 
Department of Agriculture (Far- 
mers’ Bulletin 513, Bureau of 
Biological Survey) reports the 
huding in one stomach of sev- 
enty-hve hundred seeds of yellow 
wood sorrel ; in another sixty-four hundred seeds of foxtail, and 
in a third twenty-six hundred seeds of slender pospalum, forty- 
eight hundred and twenty seeds of orange hawkweed, nine hun- 
dred hfty of hairy vervain, one hundred twenty of Carolina cranes- 
1)ill, fifty of yellow wood sorrel, six hundred twenty of panic grass, 
and forty miscellaneous weed seeds. 
Idle drawing is included here for comparison with that of the 
Passenger Pigeon or Wild Pigeon with which the species is some- 
times confused. 
THE WILD PIGEON. 
A vanished l)ird- Several reports from various localities in 
Minnesota have reached the University of the occurrence of this 
beautiful bird so common years ago within the conhnes of the 
state, but these rumors appear to have arisen either from con- 
fusing the Mourning Dove with this species, or to have been 
fakes, pure and simple. So far, the reward of $1,000 for a pair of 
these birds nesting has not been claimed. The writer has been, in 
the past, familiar with the appearance of the Passenger Pigeon 
at the time when it was extremely abundant in Minnesota and 
must confess to having been startled a few years ago in traveling 
by train from Crookston to Bemidji, at catching a momentary 
glimpse from the ear window of two birds in flight amongst the 
trees, wonderfully resembling in size, color, and shape, the Pas- 
senger Pigeon of yesterday. No opportunity was afforded, how- 
