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HISTORY OF 
MIGRATORY PIGEON, 
Columba Migratoria. Linnaeus. 
We are enabled to number this bird in our list as an occa- 
sional visitant, together with the greater part of those spoken 
of in this work. It is an inhabitant of the American Continent, 
being found over a great part of its vast extent. It associates 
in great numbers during the time of their incubation and 
migrations. Wilson, in his usual spirited style, says, “ I have 
witnessed these migrations in the Genesee Country, often in 
Pennsylvania, and also in various parts of Virginia, with amaze- 
ment ; but all that I had then seen of them were mere straggling 
parties, compared with the congregated millions which I have 
since beheld in our western forests, in the Ohio, Kentucky, and 
the Indiana Territory. These fertile and extensive regions 
