. . ingPigeons which I have not seen described. He sends a sketch of a Pigeon basket (see Fig. 21)which was used by LucindaManning and her sisters at theManning Manse in Billerica,Mass. This basket was usedas a receptacle for the Pigeonsafter they had been Manning states that thesesisters had a Pigeon bowerand snares in the valley insight of the house, in the edgeof what was then pine snaring of Pigeons,he says, must have represented quite an income to thesesisters and their family before them. The old house wasus
. . ingPigeons which I have not seen described. He sends a sketch of a Pigeon basket (see Fig. 21)which was used by LucindaManning and her sisters at theManning Manse in Billerica,Mass. This basket was usedas a receptacle for the Pigeonsafter they had been Manning states that thesesisters had a Pigeon bowerand snares in the valley insight of the house, in the edgeof what was then pine snaring of Pigeons,he says, must have represented quite an income to thesesisters and their family before them. The old house wasused as a tavern for more than one hundred years, and thetavern book, kept there from 1753 to 1796, is now in exist-ence. Frequent references to the sale of Pigeons are madetherein. There are not many exact records of the flights of Pigeonsin Massachusetts during the early part of the nineteenth cen-tury. They were of such regular occurrence that no onethought of recording them. Dr. Samuel Cabot told that from 1832 to 1836, while he was in college at. Fig. 21. —Pigeon basket. SPECIES EXTINCT OR EXTIRPATED. 441 Cambridge, Pigeons visited the town regularly, both in springand autumn, sometimes in immense numbers.^ Mr. Clayton E. Stone writes that Mr. INI. M. Boutwell,brother of the late Governor, George S. Boutwell, knew of anesting place of the Passenger Pigeon in the northern part ofLunenburg, Mass., from his earliest recollection until 1851 or185^2. He states that an old gunner, Samuel Johnson, used tovisit this place every yeav to get squabs. It was situated inthe northern part of the town, on a tract of land which up to1840 or 1845 was almost an unbroken forest for miles. It issaid to have comprised something like five acres. Mr. Bout-well says that anywhere in any fall, until the year 1860, aman could get in an hour all the Pigeons he could use. Mr. James W. Moore of Agawam, Mass., states that after1850 great flocks of Pigeons still visited that region; and that
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