. A history of the game birds, wild-fowl and shore birds of Massachusetts and adjacent states; with observations on their recent decrease in numbers; also the means for conserving those still in existence . wide. Animmense flight continued for several days thereafter.^ Wild Pigeons are not mentioned in Hampshire County,Mass., records until after 1700, but undoubtedly they werethere when settlement began. They had a breeding placenear the line between Hampshire County and Vermont, andtheir nests on the beech and hemlock trees extended for were noted in Hampshire County before 1740, a
. A history of the game birds, wild-fowl and shore birds of Massachusetts and adjacent states; with observations on their recent decrease in numbers; also the means for conserving those still in existence . wide. Animmense flight continued for several days thereafter.^ Wild Pigeons are not mentioned in Hampshire County,Mass., records until after 1700, but undoubtedly they werethere when settlement began. They had a breeding placenear the line between Hampshire County and Vermont, andtheir nests on the beech and hemlock trees extended for were noted in Hampshire County before 1740, and manywere shot. Levi Moody is given by Judd as authority for thestatement that they were caught in such numbers in Granbythat not all could be sold or eaten, and after the feathershad been plucked from them, many were fed to the feathers were much used for beds. In August, 1736,Pigeons were sold in the Boston market at twopence perdozen, and many could not be sold at that price. InNorthampton, from 1725 to 1785, when they could be sold, Lahontan, Baron de: Some New Voyages to North America, 1703, Vol. I, pp. 61, King, W. KoRs; The Sportsman and Naturalist in Canada, 1866, p. 121,. PLATE XVI. —PIGEON NET. Taken from an old etching. (Reproduced fronn The PassengerPigeon, by W. B. Mershon.) SPECIES EXTINCT OR EXTIRPATED. 439 they brought usually from threepence to sixpence per 1790 they brought ninepence per dozen, and a few yearsafter 1800, one shilling, sixpence. After 1850 they were soldat from seventy-five cents to a dollar and a half a dozen. ^ In the History of the Sesqui-centennial Celebration of theTown of Hadley, Mass., it is stated that before 1719 WildPigeons in their migrations roosted in countless numbers inthe oak and chestnut groves on the plains. Thompson states that when the country was new therewere many of their breeding places in Vermont; also, thatthey were much less abundant (1842) than formerly; but,he says, they now, in some ye
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