. Bird-life: a guide to the study of our common birds . igeons and Doves. (Family Columbid^.) The three hundred species belonging in this order aredistributed throughout most parts of the world, but onlytwo of them are found in the northeastern States. Oneof these, however, the Wild Pigeon, is now so rare thatits occurrence is worthy of note. Less than fifty yearsago it was exceedingly abundant, but its sociable habitsof nesting and flying in enormous flocks made it easyprey for the market hunter, and, with that entire disre-gard of consequences which seems to characterize mansaction when his
. Bird-life: a guide to the study of our common birds . igeons and Doves. (Family Columbid^.) The three hundred species belonging in this order aredistributed throughout most parts of the world, but onlytwo of them are found in the northeastern States. Oneof these, however, the Wild Pigeon, is now so rare thatits occurrence is worthy of note. Less than fifty yearsago it was exceedingly abundant, but its sociable habitsof nesting and flying in enormous flocks made it easyprey for the market hunter, and, with that entire disre-gard of consequences which seems to characterize mansaction when his greed is aroused, the birds were pur-sued so relentlessly tliat they have been practically ex-terminated. The Mourning or Carolina Dove has happily beenmore fortunate. Nesting in isolated pairs, and notMourning Dove, gathering in very large flocks, it hasZenaidum macroura. escaped the market hunter. Plate XIII. rjj^-g jj^^g jg ^^^^^ throughout the greater part of North America. In the latitude of NewYork it is a sunmier resident, arriving in March and. Plate XXXIY. Page 126. HORNED LAEK. Length, 7-75 inches. Upper parts brownish and sandy ; front and sidesof crown, sides of throat, and breast-patch black; forehead, line over eye,and throat pale yellow; breast dusky, belly white, tail blaok, outer feath-ers margined with white. TURKEY VULTURE. 103 remaining until November. In April we may hear itssoft, sweet call, coo-o-o, ah-coo-o-o—ooo-o-o—coo-o-o, as sadas the voice of the wind in the pines. Although the bird is as beautiful in appearance as itis graceful in flight, it is a surprisingly poor platform nest of a few twigs is about as flimsy as any-thing worthy the name can be, and one wonders howeven two eggs are kept on it long enough to hatch. Inthe West the nest is placed on the ground; in the East,on the lower branch of a tree. Like all the members of their family, Doves immersethe bill while drinking, and do not withdraw it untilthe duaught is finished.
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