. Bird lore . days in observer, who for many years witnessed the return of the flights innortheastern Ohio, puts the number of birds in one of these flocks at 141,000,-000. Among the wild enemies of the Pigeon, indeed the most dangerous of 82 Bird-Lore them, was the Indian who levied upon the flocks wherever he found populous roosts of the southland he invaded at night, and, firing the under-brush, killed the birds by the thousands. Large numbers were caught aroundthe numerous licks in simple traps. But it was at the great nestings that thetribe settled down to a co
. Bird lore . days in observer, who for many years witnessed the return of the flights innortheastern Ohio, puts the number of birds in one of these flocks at 141,000,-000. Among the wild enemies of the Pigeon, indeed the most dangerous of 82 Bird-Lore them, was the Indian who levied upon the flocks wherever he found populous roosts of the southland he invaded at night, and, firing the under-brush, killed the birds by the thousands. Large numbers were caught aroundthe numerous licks in simple traps. But it was at the great nestings that thetribe settled down to a continuous banquet, and during which it gathered abounteous harvest of savory produce. Some of the older historians occasionallyrefer to those hunting camps. Writing about 1650, Adrian Van der Douk,in his Description of the New Netherlands, says: The Indians, when theyfind the breeding places of the Pigeons, frequently remove to those placeswith their wives and children to the number of two to three hundred in a. PASSENGER PIGEONA characteristic attitude assumed as the bird walked through branches company, where they live a month or more on the young Pigeons which theytake after flushing them from their nests with poles or sticks. Recalling theold days, Pokagon states that they seldom killed the old birds, but made greatpreparations to secure their young, out of which the squaws made squabbutter, and smoked and dried them for future use. As to the amount of foodpreserved, John Lawson, who traveled among the tribes of the Carolinasin the first decade of the eighteenth century, relates: You may find severalIndian towns of not above seventeen houses, that have more than a hundredgallons of pigeon oil or fat, they using it with pulse or bread as we do people, the world over, carefully protect their organic resources, andthe aborigines shared this wholesome instinct of self-preservation. A pupil of Linnaeus, Peter Kalm, whose name is perpetuated by our Kalmia,or sheep la
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