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Show Marked Resemblance The mourning dove looks so much like the extinct passenger pigeon that reports are constantly being circulated that the vanished birds have been seen. In color and concur con-cur there is a marked resemblance. The extinct pigeon and the mourning mourn-ing dove look very much alike in one respect they are the only native na-tive American doves with long, pointed tails. All others have square tails. For many years the U. S. biological bio-logical survey sent ornithologists to investigate reports of the extinct passenger pigeon having been seen. Nothing ever came of these investigations. |