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COLUMBINE. ECTOPISTES. 
GENUS III. ECTOPISTES, Swains. LONG-TAILED-DOVE. 
Bill straight, of ordinary length, rather slender, broader 
than high at the base, with a tumid fleshy covering, com- 
pressed toward the end. Head small, oblong ; neck of 
moderate length ; body rather slender. Feet short ; tarsus 
as short as the hind toe and claw, anteriorly scutellate ; 
outer toe slightly shorter than inner ; claws rather short, 
stout, arched, obtuse. Plumage compact above ; blended, 
but firm beneath. Wings long ; first and second quills 
longest, and about equal. Tail long, cuneate, pointed. 
Digestive organs as in the preceding genus. 
288. 1. Ectopistes migratoria, Linn, Wandering Long- 
tailed-Dove. — Passenger Pigeon. 
Plate LXII. Male and Female. 
Twelve tail-feathers. Male with the upper part and sides of the 
head light blue ; throat, fore neck, and breast, light brownish-red, sides 
and lower wing-coverts light blue, abdomen and lower tail-coverts 
white ; upper parts greyish-blue ; lower part of neck behind and along 
the sides changing to gold, emerald-green, and rich crimson ; some of 
the wing-coverts with a black spot ; quills and larger coverts blackish- 
brown ; primaries edged with blue at the base, with reddish-white 
toward the end ; middle tail-feathers bluish-black, the rest pale blue 
at the base, with a patch of red and a band of black on the inner web, 
white in the rest of their extent. Female with the tints much duller, 
the upper parts inclining to yellowish-brown, the dark spots on the 
wings more numerous, the lower parts pale greyish, anteriorly tinged 
with yellowish-brown. In a female examined, the anterior part of the 
tarsus has two rows of scales, while in a male that part is broadly 
scutellate. 
MaUi 16i, 25. Female, 15, 23. 
Wanders continually in search of food throughout all parts of North 
America. Wonderfully abundant at times in particular districts. 
Columba migratoria, Linn. Syst. Nat. v. i. p. 285. 
Passenger Pigeon, Columba migratoria. Wins. Amer. Orn. v. i. p. 102. 
Columba migratoria. Bo nap. Syn. p. 120. 
Columba (Ectopistes) migratoria, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v. ii. p. 363. 
Passenger Pigeon, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 629. 
Passenger Pigeon, Columba migratoria, Aun. Orn. Biog. v. i. p. 319 ; v. v. p. 561. 
