The Passenger Pigeon

Mr. Oscar B. Warren, now of Houghton, Mich., has been interested for years in collecting data about the Passenger Pigeon, and kindly turned over to me his entire budget. Among h...

Most of the notes on the Passenger Pigeon recorded in the past year have referred to single birds or pairs. It is with much pleasure that I now call attention to a flock of some...

The following article appeared in "American Field," of Chicago, Jan. 11, 1879. Parts omitted here referred to an ineffectual attempt on the part of the Saginaw and Bay City Game...

The Passenger Pigeon, or, as it is usually named in America, the Wild Pigeon, moves with extreme rapidity, propelling itself by quickly repeated flaps of the wings, which it bri...

This remarkable bird merits a distinguished place in the annals of our feathered tribes--a claim to which I shall endeavor to do justice; and, though it would be impossible, in...

I have corresponded with many men who were actively interested in hunting and observing the Passenger Pigeon when its flocks still numbered uncounted millions of birds. Some of...

[Footnote B: The first volume of Captain Bendire's monumental work was published in 1892, by which time the extinction of the Passenger Pigeon was foretold as a matter of a few...

[Footnote G: This paper was read at a meeting of the Manitoba Historical and Scientific Society at Winnepeg in 1905, by the author, a naturalist, residing at Portage la Prairie.]

The preceding chapter by Prof. H. B. Roney in _American Field_, was answered by E. T. Martin, a game dealer of Chicago, who afterwards issued a pamphlet, the first page of which...

[Footnote A: Simon Pokagon, of Michigan, is a full-blooded Indian, the last Pottawattomie chief of the Pokagon band. He is author of the "Red Man's Greeting," and has been calle...

[Footnote D: I think that anyone who reads this article will be, like myself, satisfied that the destruction of the pigeons was wrought to gratify the avarice and love of gain o...

In the _American Field_ of December 5, 1895, I noticed a short note, stating that Mr. David Whittaker of Milwaukee, Wis., had in a spacious inclosure a flock of fifty genuine wi...

My boyhood was made active and wholesome by a love for outdoor pastimes that had been bred in me by generations of sport-loving ancestors. From which side of the genealogical tr...

The earliest mention of the wild pigeon I have been able to find is the following, taken from _Forest and Stream_, to which it was contributed by F. C. Browne, Framingham, Mass....

There are hundreds and perhaps thousands of the younger readers of _The Oölogist_ who have never seen a Passenger Pigeon alive. In fact, there are many who have never seen a ski...

When the following report from so high an authority as John Burroughs appeared in _Forest and Stream_ it seemed too important to be overlooked. I therefore ventured to open a co...

One of the most graphic descriptions ever written of a pigeon flight and slaughter is to be found in Cooper's novel, "The Pioneers," from which I make the following extracts:

Dear Sir:--Thank you for your note of the third in reply to mine of the first, in regard to your book on the Passenger Pigeon. I note that you say:

In the spring of 1888 my friend, Captain Bendire, wrote to me that he had received news from a correspondent in central Michigan to the effect that wild pigeons had arrived ther...