. A history of the game birds, wild-fowl and shore birds of Massachusetts and adjacent states : including those used for food which have disappeared since the settlement of the country, and those which are now hunted for food or sport, with observations on their former abundance and recent decrease in numbers; also the means for conserving those still in existence . s were seen and specimens taken in the last decade of thenineteenth century in Canada, and in Wisconsin, Nebraska,Illinois, Indiana and other western States, and even in someof the eastern States. Chief Pokagon reported a nesting o
. A history of the game birds, wild-fowl and shore birds of Massachusetts and adjacent states : including those used for food which have disappeared since the settlement of the country, and those which are now hunted for food or sport, with observations on their former abundance and recent decrease in numbers; also the means for conserving those still in existence . s were seen and specimens taken in the last decade of thenineteenth century in Canada, and in Wisconsin, Nebraska,Illinois, Indiana and other western States, and even in someof the eastern States. Chief Pokagon reported a nesting ofPigeons near the headwaters of the Au Sable River in Michiganin 1896. In 1898 a flock of about two hundred birds was saidto have been seen in Michigan; one was taken; and in 1900about fifty birds were reported. While the big nestings of 1878 and 1881 in Michigan werethe last immense breeding places of Passenger Pigeons onrecord, the species did not become extinct in a day or a year;they were not wiped from the face of the earth by any greatcatastrophe; they gradually became fewer and fewer fortwenty to twenty-five years after the date set by the pigeonersas that of the last great migration. Such records as I find of the last specimens actually taken(not merely seen) in the States to which they refer indicatehow I he species finally dropped out of sight: —. PLATE XVIII. Upper figure, egg of Passenger Pigeon. Lower figure, eggs ofMourning Dove, commonly mistaken for those of Passenger Pigeon.(Photograph by Prof. C. F. Hodge.)
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