. 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. to the ornithological world. He began by namingcommittees, soliciting rewards and extending aknowledge of the birds in every locality where theymight possibly linger. But all in vain. No wonderhe became discouraged after nearly ten years of unre-quited work. His faith was not confined to himselfalone. Other leading figures in the realm of orni-thology have shared his optimism that the PassengerPigeon
. 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. to the ornithological world. He began by namingcommittees, soliciting rewards and extending aknowledge of the birds in every locality where theymight possibly linger. But all in vain. No wonderhe became discouraged after nearly ten years of unre-quited work. His faith was not confined to himselfalone. Other leading figures in the realm of orni-thology have shared his optimism that the PassengerPigeon still exists and will return when conditionsare right. Dr. W. T. Hornaday, great authority onall wild life topics, director of the extensive NewYork Zoological Garden, and gifted writer, states inhis American Natural History, published in 1903,that in a certain county in Northern Pennsylvania anaturalist fed a flock of three hundred wild pigeonsduring an entire autumn about 1903, and expectedthem to return the following year. Charles H. Eldon,premier naturalist of Central Pennsylvania, whomounted, at his studio in Williamsport. a handsomemale wild pigeon killed at Linden, Lycoming WILLIAM HAZENBorn 1842, an Authority on the Passenger Pigeons. 174 THE PASSENGER PIGEON IN PENNSYLVANIA near extinction he would have had the specimenmounted. Every one in Central Pennsylvania knowsJake Zimmerman, proprietor of the cozy ZimmermanHospice, on the mountain top ahove Milton. Thou-sands of tourists, fishermen, hunters and motoristshave enjoyed the hospitality of this Alpine retreat,pronouncing it one of the most picturesque resortsin the whole of the Pennsylvania highlands. Oneafternoon, during oats harvest in 1900, Zimmermanwas in his field when he saw^ a single wild pigeon flyingabove his head in a northwesterly direction. He hadnot seen a passenger pigeon previous to that fornearly twenty years. Charlie Springer, also pro-prietor of a mountain resort on the Coudersport pike,no
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