. Legislation for the protection of birds other than game birds . sold during close seasons, thus furnishing a market for the illegiti-mate sale of game from other States. 6 Ornithologists divide the class of birds into orders which are subdivided intogroups called families, these again into genera, which in turn are composed of speciesand subspecies. Only 17 orders and 67 families are represented in North Americanorth of Mexico. PIGEONS AND DOVES. 15 SPECIES ERRONEOUSLY CONSIDERED GAME BIRDS. PIGEONS AND DOVES. The order Columbte, comprising wild pigeons and doves, is repre-sented in the Unit
. Legislation for the protection of birds other than game birds . sold during close seasons, thus furnishing a market for the illegiti-mate sale of game from other States. 6 Ornithologists divide the class of birds into orders which are subdivided intogroups called families, these again into genera, which in turn are composed of speciesand subspecies. Only 17 orders and 67 families are represented in North Americanorth of Mexico. PIGEONS AND DOVES. 15 SPECIES ERRONEOUSLY CONSIDERED GAME BIRDS. PIGEONS AND DOVES. The order Columbte, comprising wild pigeons and doves, is repre-sented in the United States by 15 species and subspecies. Of these,only three have any practical importance as game birds, viz, the pas-senger pigeon {Eetopistes migratoritis), now almost exterminated; theband-tailed pigeon (Oolvmba fasciata), found from the Rocky Moun-tains to the Pacific coast, and the common, mourning, turtle, or Carolinadove (Zeiialdi/mmacroiirti), distributed more or less generally through-out the United States. The wild pigeon is now rarely seen except in. ■*»
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