. A history of the game birds, wild-fowl and shore birds of Massachusetts and adjacent states; with observations on their recent decrease in numbers; also the means for conserving those still in existence . PLATE XVIII. Upper figure, egg of Passenger Pigeon. Lower figure, eggs ofMourning Dove, commonly mistaken for those of Passenger Pigeon.(Photograph by Prof. C. F. Hodge.). PLATE XIX. —PASSENGER PIGEON AND BIRDS COMMONLYMISTAKEN FOR IT. Mounted specimen of Band-tailed Pigeon, left; Passenger Pigeon, center;and Mourning Dove, right. (Photograph by Prof. C. F. Hodge.) SPECIES EXTINCT OR EXTIRP
. A history of the game birds, wild-fowl and shore birds of Massachusetts and adjacent states; with observations on their recent decrease in numbers; also the means for conserving those still in existence . PLATE XVIII. Upper figure, egg of Passenger Pigeon. Lower figure, eggs ofMourning Dove, commonly mistaken for those of Passenger Pigeon.(Photograph by Prof. C. F. Hodge.). PLATE XIX. —PASSENGER PIGEON AND BIRDS COMMONLYMISTAKEN FOR IT. Mounted specimen of Band-tailed Pigeon, left; Passenger Pigeon, center;and Mourning Dove, right. (Photograph by Prof. C. F. Hodge.) SPECIES EXTINCT OR EXTIRPATED. 461 1882-83. — Texas, a flight seen in winter of 1882-83 near Lampasas thatwas three and one-half hours in passing. Many killed. No recentrecord (A. S. Eldredge). 1885. — New Hampshire, Concord (G. M. Allen, Birds of New Hampshire). 1885. — South Carolina, immature female, November 21 (Arthur T. Wayne,Auk, 1906, p. 61). 1886. — Rhode Island, specimen taken by Walter A. Angell in 1886 or M. Flanagan took about a dozen at Warwick in 1885 or 1886 (JohnH. Flanagan). 1889. — District of Columbia, October 19 (W. W. Cooke, Proc, Biological Society of Washington, 1908, p. 116); specimens not — Connecticut, Portland, young male, October 1 (John H. Sage) ; specimen — Province of Quebec, Tadousac, specimen taken July 20,1
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