. Annual report of the Nebraska State Horticultural Society. Horticulture -- Nebraska. 84 NEBRASKA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 315. Ectopistes migratorius {Linn.).—Passenger Pigeon. West Point, Norfolk (L. Hruner); "Some years abundant in Nebniska" (Aughey); "Summer resident, irregular, arrives in May and leaves in Septem- ber " (Taylor); " Deciduous forest regions of eastern North America"' (Bend- ire); west to the great plains (Goss); Florence (L. Skow); "One killed out of flock of fifteen or twenty by Hon. Edgar Howard, of Papillion, in woods five miles s
. Annual report of the Nebraska State Horticultural Society. Horticulture -- Nebraska. 84 NEBRASKA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 315. Ectopistes migratorius {Linn.).—Passenger Pigeon. West Point, Norfolk (L. Hruner); "Some years abundant in Nebniska" (Aughey); "Summer resident, irregular, arrives in May and leaves in Septem- ber " (Taylor); " Deciduous forest regions of eastern North America"' (Bend- ire); west to the great plains (Goss); Florence (L. Skow); "One killed out of flock of fifteen or twenty by Hon. Edgar Howard, of Papillion, in woods five miles south east of that place, in Sarpy county, Nov. 9, 1895,—also a flock of fifteen was by Geo. W. Sabine, of Omaha, seen flying over his residence on morning of Nov. 28,1895" (I. S. Trostler); Cuminj; county (J. H. Mockett, Jr.).. Fig. 11.—Carolina Dove. 816. Zenaidura macroura {Linn.).—Mourning Dove; Caro- lina Dove. Especially common over wooded portions of the state where it breeds (L. Bruner); " Abundant in Nebraska " (Aughey): "Summer resident, abundant, arrives in April and leaves in September" (Taylor); "Extends over the entire United States" (Bendire); " The whole of temperate North America" (Goss); Beatrice, De Witt (A. S. Pearse); Omaha—nesting (L. Skow); Peru, breeds, winters (G. A. Coleman); Cherry county—breeds (J. M. Bates); Genoa (D. H. Talbot); Gage county—breeds (F. A. Colby); Omaha, "an abundant sum- mer resident—breeds Apr. 1 to Sept. 1 " (L S. Trostler). Order RAPT0RE8.—Birds of Prey. In summing up tiie food-habits of the hawks and owls as found in the state, I can do no better than to quote Dr. C. Hart Merriam's words used in his letter of transmittal to the Secretary of Agriculture when submitting for publication a report on the hawks and owls of the United States. He writes as follows :* •*"The Hawks and Owls of the United States in Their Relation to Agriculture," by A. K. F
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