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The Passenger Pigeon

PASSENGER PIGEON (Columba Migratoria)

Upper bird, male; lower, female

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The

Passenger Pigeon

BY

W. B. MERSHON

NEW YORK
THE OUTING PUBLISHING COMPANY
1907

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Copyright, 1907, by
W B MERSHON

THE OUTING PRESS
DEPOSIT, N. Y.


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CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
Introductionix
IMy Boyhood Among the Pigeons1
IIThe Passenger Pigeon
From "American Ornithology," by Alexander Wilson
9
IIIThe Passenger Pigeon
From "Ornithological Biography," by John James Audubon
25
IVAs James Fenimore Cooper Saw It41
VThe Wild Pigeon of North America
By Chief Pokagon, in "The Chautauquan"
48
...

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