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to be more abundant during summer and fall, but were noted during the winter of 
1915-16 [in December, 1916 (Willett). A few winter rarely even to the northern part 
of the State as far as Santa Fe (Leopold, 1919)]; a few, Shiprock (Gilman); they were 
abundant January 23-25, 1S94, Socorro (Loring). In central New Mexico they were 
..very plentiful in 1907-1915 (Rockhill). 
Map 11. Western Mourning Dove 
Shaded areas show general breeding range, mainly in Sonoran Zones 
In spring they spread all over the State, except in the high mountains (Ligon). 
They are recorded as arriving at Las Vegas, 6,700 feet, April 2, 1902 (Atkins), 
and at Halls Peak, 8,000 feet, April 20, 1895 (Barber). The high altitude of Halls 
Peak accounts for the late date of arrival, for by April 20, the earliest migrants have 
already arrived in southern Wyoming.—W. W. Cooke. 
Nest. —Usually a frail platform of twigs, straws, dried grasses, weed stems, and 
rootlets on horizontal branches of low trees, as mesquite, cedar, hackberry, oak, or 
willow, but also in bushes and cactus, and in treeless regions on the ground. Eggs: 
2, white. 
