. 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. ?m j^^ -. JOHN C. FRENCHFrom an Early Photograph CHAPTER VII Comments of an Eminent Observer, John J. Audubon, in Kentucky—The Green River Nestings EARLY in May, 1810, John J. Audubon, the nat-uralist, reached the bank of Green river, inKentucky, and described the nesting ground of the pas-senger pigeons he saw there in the following words: It was, as is always the case, a portion of theforest where
. 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. ?m j^^ -. JOHN C. FRENCHFrom an Early Photograph CHAPTER VII Comments of an Eminent Observer, John J. Audubon, in Kentucky—The Green River Nestings EARLY in May, 1810, John J. Audubon, the nat-uralist, reached the bank of Green river, inKentucky, and described the nesting ground of the pas-senger pigeons he saw there in the following words: It was, as is always the case, a portion of theforest where the trees were of great magnitude, andwhere there was little underwood. I rode through itupwards of forty miles, and found its average breadthto b6 rather more than three miles. My first view ofit was about a fortnight subsequent to the period whenthey had made choice of it, and I arrived there nearlytwo hours before sunset. Few pigeons were then to be ?een, but a greatnumber of persons with horses, wagons, guns and am-munition had already established on theborders. Two farmers from the vicinity of Russell-ville, distant more than a hundred miles, had drivenupward of three hundred hog
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