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COLUMBA FASCIATA. 
had set out, or adorning the naked branches of s0 ?!, 
distant, high, and insulated tree. In the coU» tr ' p 
where they pass the summer, they build their nesf j 
the limb of a pine, towards the centre; it is conip^ 
of grasses and earth, and lined internally with featl' 1 ’ j 
The female lays five eggs, which are white, sp ( 
with yellowish. The young leave their nest in J u 'j 
and are soon able to join the parents in their autu 1 * 1 *" 
migration. 
In the northern countries, where these birds ^ 
very numerous, when a deep snow has covered , . 
ground, they appear to lose all sense of danger, and • 
spreading some favourite food, may be knocked 
w'th sticks, or even caught by the hand, while b" s 'i 
engaged in feeding. Their manners are, in other resP*^ 
very similar to those of the common crossbib’ .. 
described by Wilson, and they are said also to p lU " 
of the fondness for saline substances so remarkable 
that species. 
GENUS XVII. — COL VMSA. 
38. COLUMRA FASCIA TA, SAY. — BAND-TAILED PIC.EOS- 
BONAPARTE, PLATE VIII. FIG. III. 
This bird, which is a male, was shot in July, by 
Titian Peale, at a saline spring on a small tributary ^ 
the river Platte, within the first range of the BQ 
Mountains ; it was accompanied by another individ'V 
probably its mate, which escaped. As no other sp 6 ^ 
raens , have been discovered, the reader will no! 
surprised that our specific description is unaccompab 
by a general history of their manners. $ 
The band-tailed pigeon is thirteen inches long > J 
bill is yellow, black at tip, and somewhat gibbous be 
the nostrils; the feet are yellow, and the nails bb*. _ 
the irides are blackish ; the head is of a purple b* j, 
reous colour; the neck, at its junction with the bf (|(i 
has a white semiband, beneath which its back and sl .j 
are brilliant golden green, the feathers being bro" 
