Passenger pigeon, Ectopistes migratorius. Extinct. Copied from Alexander Wilson’s American Ornithology, Philadelphia, 1829. Woodblock engraving from The Penny Magazine, of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, printed by William Clowes, Lambeth, 1833.

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