. The passenger pigeon in Pennsylvania, its remarkable history, habits and extinction, with interesting side lights on the folk and forest lore of the Alleghenian region of the old Keystone state. o my right and very near, the loud anddistant crow of a wild pigeon. Well, that was a sur-prise. I had not seen a pigeon in fifteen years or moreand now I sat within a few feet of one and he kept oncrowing. Well, I went to work at those bushes, pull-ing them apart w^hen suddenly I saw- him standint^upon the top of a fence post and still crowing. I picked up the gun and placed it to the shoulderand, o
. The passenger pigeon in Pennsylvania, its remarkable history, habits and extinction, with interesting side lights on the folk and forest lore of the Alleghenian region of the old Keystone state. o my right and very near, the loud anddistant crow of a wild pigeon. Well, that was a sur-prise. I had not seen a pigeon in fifteen years or moreand now I sat within a few feet of one and he kept oncrowing. Well, I went to work at those bushes, pull-ing them apart w^hen suddenly I saw- him standint^upon the top of a fence post and still crowing. I picked up the gun and placed it to the shoulderand, old hunter and old trapshooter as I was, I couldnot hold the gun still, I trembled so. But I took atrap-shooters chance and got the bird.—S. C. Bishopand A. H. Wright, Cornell University, Ithaca. X. Auk, April, lOlT. 234 THE PASSENGER PIGEON IN PENNSYLVANIA Wild Pigeons in Delaware County ]\Ieclia, Pa., Jan. 6.—While passing thru Springfieldtownship today. Deputy Sheriff William M. Mathues,master hunter of this county, was surprised to see aflock of thirty or more wild pigeons feeding in a mea-dow. Mathues declares that he had not seen a wildpigeon in this county since 1876. (1917).
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