PASSENGER PIGEON. 
( Columba migratoria, L. Wilson, v. p. 102. pi. 44. fig. 1. [male.] 
Aud. pi. 62. Orn. i. p. 319. Phil. Museum, No.) 
Sp. Charact. — Bluish-grey ; belly white ; throat, breast, and sides 
vinaceous ; tail black, of 12 feathers, the 5 lateral ones whitish. — 
Female paler, with the breast cinereous brown. — Young of a dull 
muddy grey, spotted with whitish. 
The Wild Pigeon of America, so wonderful for its gre- 
garious habits, is met with more or less according to 
circumstances from Mexico to Hudson’s Bay, in which 
inhospitable region they are even seen in December, 
weathering the severity of the climate with indifference, 
and supporting themselves upon the meagre buds of the 
juniper, when the ground is hidden by inundating snows. 
To the west they are found to the base of the Northern 
Andes or Rocky Mountains, but do not appear to be 
known beyond this natural barrier to their devious wan- 
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