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Title: The Passenger Pigeon
Author: Various
Editor: W. B. Mershon
Release Date: January 22, 2014 [eBook #44729]
Language: English
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The Passenger Pigeon
PASSENGER PIGEON (Columba Migratoria)
Upper bird, male; lower, female
The
Passenger Pigeon
BY
W. B. MERSHON
NEW YORK
THE OUTING PUBLISHING COMPANY
1907
Copyright, 1907, by
W B MERSHON
THE OUTING PRESS
DEPOSIT, N. Y.
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| Introduction | ix | |
| I | My Boyhood Among the Pigeons | 1 |
| II | The Passenger Pigeon From "American Ornithology," by Alexander Wilson |
9 |
| III | The Passenger Pigeon From "Ornithological Biography," by John James Audubon |
25 |
| IV | As James Fenimore Cooper Saw It | 41 |
| V | The Wild Pigeon of North America By Chief Pokagon, in "The Chautauquan" |
48 |
| VI | The Passenger Pigeon From "Life Histories of North American Birds," by Charles Bendire |
60 |
| VII | Netting the Pigeons By William Brewster, in "The Auk" |
74 |
| VIII | Efforts to Check the Slaughter By Prof. H. B. Roney |
77 |
| IX | The Pigeon Butcher's Defense By E. T. Martin, in "American Field" |
93 |
| X | Notes of a Vanished Industry | 105 |
| XI | Recollections of "Old Timers" | 119 |
| XII | The Last of the Pigeons | 141 |
| XIII | What Became of the Wild Pigeon? By Sullivan Cook, in "Forest and Stream" |
163 |
| XIV | A Novel Theory of Extinction By C. H. Ames and Robert Ridgway |
173 |
| XV | News from John Burroughs | 179 |
| XVI | The Pigeon in Manitoba By George E. Atkinson |
186 |