135 Pie BOSS AND DOVES.

neck with metallic reﬂections: middle ot' the back and seapnlars more or less washed with olive—brown: middle tail-feathers t'useous, outer ones black at. the base, then slaty blue. t'ading into a broad, white tip; under parts deep, rich \‘inaccous; lower belly white, throat bluish slateieolor. Ail. 9,—Silni— hit. but upper parts with less iridescenee and more olive-brown; breast pale grayish brown; belly whitish. lm.~tienerally similar to the 9 , but the feathers of the upper parts and breast tipped with whitish, the primaries edged and tipped with rut'ous. L., 16'2”; W., 7'52, T., 7'53; B., 7'10.

[tango—Eastern North America. northward in the interior to Hudson Bay, breeding locally throughout the more northern part of its range.

Washington, rare and irregular T. V. or \V. V. Sing Sing, formerly rare S. R. and common T. \',, Api. 15 to May 17; Aug. 21 to Oct. 11; last seen Oct. 11, 1888. Cambridge, rare and irregular T. V.

Amt, a platform of sticks, in a tree. [Li/gs, one to two, white, 1'45 x 109.

Wilson, writing about 1808, estimated that a ﬂock of Wild Pigeons observed by him near Frankfort, Kentucky, contained at least 2,230,- 272,000 individuals. Captain Bendire, writing in 1892, says: “ . . . It looks now as if their total extermination might be accomplished within the present century. The only thing which retards their complete ex- tinction is that it no longer pays to net these birds. they being too scarce for this now, at least in the more settled portions of the coun- try, and also, perhaps, that from constant and unremitting persecution on their breeding grounds they have changed their habits somewhat, the majority no longer breeding in colonies, but scattering over the country and breeding in isolated pairs " (Life Histories of North American Birds. p. 133).

An article by William Brewster on The Present Status of the Wild Pigeon as a Bird of the United States, with some Notes on its Habits (Auk, vi, 1889, pp. 285—291), gives much information concerning the recent history of the bird in Michigan, one of its last strongholds. According to an informant of Mr. Brewster’s, the, last nesting in Michi- gan of any importance was in 1881. “ It was of only moderate size— pcrliaps eight miles long.” The largest known Michigan nesting oo- currcd in 1876 or 1877. It was twenty—eight miles long and averaged three or four miles in width.

In the Atlantic States the \Vild Pigeon is now so rare a bird that. during the past sixteen years I have seen only one pair.

318. Zenaidura. macroura. (Linnﬂ. Mol'nymo DOVE. All. 6.“ Upper parts olive grayish brown; tbrehead \‘inaeeous: crown bluish slate- color; sides of the neck with metallic retleetions, a small Marl: mark below t/m car; middle tail»t'eathers like the back, the others, seen from above, slaty gray for the basal halt‘, then banded with black and broadly tipped with ashy and white; breast Vinaeeous; belly cream-butt. .111. 9.—Similar, but with less iridesceuee: breast and forehead washed with grayish brown. 1m.—