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wild pigeon † Hist.

• a migratory wild pigeon, Ectopistes migratorius, which appeared in immense flocks during August up to the late 19th century, becoming extinct by 1914.

  See also: passenger pigeon  

  • 1765-75  (1933)  These Wood afford Partreages . . . Rackones, sum Wild Pigins.
  • 1830  Large flocks of the wild pigeon have been passing in the neighborhood of the city since Sunday the 12th instant.
  • 1868  The wild pigeon has its favourite resort in the barrens during a greater part of the summer.
  • 1908  Wild pigeons . . . were offered at figures which would be startling to people with modern ideas of value.
  • 1959  Passenger Pigeon [was also called] wild pigeon (general). . . .