. Bird-lore . which no records seem to have been made. A ship-ment of several hundred dozens of birds, in 1893, marks their ultimate dis-appearance here. A pitiful remnant, some fifty in all, lingered for a few sub-sequent years in southwestern Missouri. A small number of birds outlived the dissolution of the last flocks. Dis-persed in couples, in bands of five or more, or as solitary individuals, thesewere sighted at rare intervals throughout the former breeding range duringthe nineties. A dozen or so bred near the headwaters of the Au Sable Riverin 1896. It is the last known nesting. With th
. Bird-lore . which no records seem to have been made. A ship-ment of several hundred dozens of birds, in 1893, marks their ultimate dis-appearance here. A pitiful remnant, some fifty in all, lingered for a few sub-sequent years in southwestern Missouri. A small number of birds outlived the dissolution of the last flocks. Dis-persed in couples, in bands of five or more, or as solitary individuals, thesewere sighted at rare intervals throughout the former breeding range duringthe nineties. A dozen or so bred near the headwaters of the Au Sable Riverin 1896. It is the last known nesting. With the beginning of the new cen-tury trustworthy records cease, and there is but little doubt that its first yearswitnessed the passing away of the hapless descendants of a favored race. Down in the pleasant valley of the Ohio, amidst patriarchs of the forestprimeval, lives to this day a captive and lonely daughter of her gentle tribe,and its sole relict, awaiting the final summons which comes to all that The Passenger Pigeon: Early Historical Records,1534-1860 By ALBERT HAZEN WRIGHT Almost the only sources of ornitholop;ical knowledge of the earlier times/-% in North America are historical annals, quaint narratives of exjilora-tion, and travelers sketches. Our predecessors had intense interest inbirds, now rare, near-extinct, or extinct. The flocking of the Passenger Pigeon,or other habits equally peculiar, were in such bold relief, and so patent, asto attract the attention of any layman, whatever his mission. Only a smalll)art of this mass of information from the contemporaries of the Pigeon canbe presented, and this resume can consider but a few topics, which are largelyclothed in the language of early observers. Migration.—The prodigious flights of these millions of millions of birdshave exhausted the numerical superlatives of the English tongue. Theydarkened the sky like locusts; the hemisphere was never entirely free ofthem; all the pigeons of the world apparently
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