. Handbook of birds of the western United States including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande valley . consin, and Michigan. GEKTTS ZENAIDUKA. 316. Zenaidura macroura (iiVm.). Modtining Dove. Tail of fourteen feathers, graduated, more than two thirds as long aswing; feathers more or less narrowed at tips;wings pointed ; tarsus naked ; side toes of unequallength, the outer shortest; space around the eyebare. Adult male: tail bordered with white andwith subterminal black spots; back and wingswith a few roundish black spots; rest of upper^T^^oQg parts brown; top of
. Handbook of birds of the western United States including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande valley . consin, and Michigan. GEKTTS ZENAIDUKA. 316. Zenaidura macroura (iiVm.). Modtining Dove. Tail of fourteen feathers, graduated, more than two thirds as long aswing; feathers more or less narrowed at tips;wings pointed ; tarsus naked ; side toes of unequallength, the outer shortest; space around the eyebare. Adult male: tail bordered with white andwith subterminal black spots; back and wingswith a few roundish black spots; rest of upper^T^^oQg parts brown; top of head washed with bluish gray, sides of head with blue-black spot and pinkiridescence ; under parts brownish, tinged with pink on breast. Adultfemale: similar but paler throughout, with little if any bluish gray on head,black ear spot smaller, and metallic gloss less distinct. Young: dullerthan female, without metallic gloss or distinct ear spot; feathers of upperparts and breast with gravish tips. Length: 11-18, wing , , bill . Distribution. — Breeds in Transition and Upper and Lower Sonoran zones. PIGEONS 141 throughout the United States, and southern parts of Ontario, Manitoba,and British Columbia, migrating- to Panama and the West Indies. Migra-tory in the northern part of its rang-e. Nest. — A frail platform of twigs usually on a flat branch 10 to 20feet from the ground, but also on the ground, on cliffs, in cactus, bushes,and trees as high as 50 feet from the g-round. Eggs : usually 2, white. Food. — Snails and other mollusks, millepeds, cicadas and other insects,grain, weed seeds, acorns, berries, and plant tops. The free, swift flight of the mourning dove and the skill withwhich he manages his airship proclaim him a traveler. As heshoots by overhead he cuts the air with the hiss of a bullet, hisplumage almost as compact and smooth as the nose of a mauser,his long tail narrowed to a frictionless knife-blade. As his powerfulwings bear hi
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