. A history of British birds . VOL. III. COLVMBID^ ECTOPISTES MIGRATORIUS (LiunffiUS*). THE PASSENGER PIGEON. Ectojnstes migratorius. EcTOPiSTES, Stoainsonf. Bill small, slender and notched. Wings ratherelongated, pointed ; the second feather longest. Tail very long and extremelycuneate. Tarsi very short, half-covered anteriorly by feathers; anteriorscales imbricate ; lateral scales small and reticiilate. The American Passenger Pigeon was included in the firstEdition of this work on the strength of the occurrence of asingle specimen recorded by Dr. Fleming in his * Historyof Bri
. A history of British birds . VOL. III. COLVMBID^ ECTOPISTES MIGRATORIUS (LiunffiUS*). THE PASSENGER PIGEON. Ectojnstes migratorius. EcTOPiSTES, Stoainsonf. Bill small, slender and notched. Wings ratherelongated, pointed ; the second feather longest. Tail very long and extremelycuneate. Tarsi very short, half-covered anteriorly by feathers; anteriorscales imbricate ; lateral scales small and reticiilate. The American Passenger Pigeon was included in the firstEdition of this work on the strength of the occurrence of asingle specimen recorded by Dr. Fleming in his * Historyof British Animals, p. 145, as having been shot whileperched on a wall in the neighbourhood of a pigeon-house, * Columba migratoria, Linnpeus, Syst. Nat, Ed. 12, i. p. 285 (1766).t Zoological Journal, iii. p. 362 (1827). PASSENGER PIGEON. 27 at Westhall in the parish of Monymeal, Fifeshire, the 31stof December, 1825. The feathers were quite fresh andentire, hke those of a wild bird. To this in the 2nd and3rd Editions was added the record of another, which was sentto
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