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Title: The passenger pigeon in Pennsylvania, its remarkable history, habits and extinction, with interesting side lights on the folk and forest lore of the Alleghenian region of the old Keystone state
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: French, John C., 1858-
Subjects: Pigeons
Publisher: Altoona, Pa., Altoona tribune company
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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w dip, the young man accompanied the dame tothe attic, where on cords hung hundreds and hundredsof jerked wild pigeons breasts. These made a de-licious piece de resistance, being served and eaten likethe bultong of the South African Veldt. Dr. B. S. Bar-ton in his miscellanies where he so vividly describedthe vast flight of Carolina paroquets in a snowstorm,which so frightened the superstitious Dutch settlers inthe Mohawk Valley, New York, in the winter of 1780,tells of a mild winter in 1797. when passenger pigeonsremained about Philadelphia a^ late as February.There was much sickness that winter, though the greatscientist does not intimate-that they were birds of illomen. )\Tr. Hench, of Altoona, states that when a boy.in Perry County, he saw many flocks of wild pigeonsin wheat planting season and saw their depredations ofthe wheat fields. He tells of millions of pigeons roost-ing: on the Alleghenv mountain, between Cambria andSomerset counties as late as )\Iarch first, 1875 or 1876.
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DR. W. T. HORNADAY, Sc. D. THE PASSENGER PIGEON IN PENNSYLVANIA 185 Newspapers told of a flock of wild pigeons havingbeen seen in Delaware County in January, llJli.When in the Shenandoah V^alley, in the late fall of1910, a livery stable driver at New Market, about 50years of age, told the writer that he had killed two wildpigeons in the JMasnutten Mountains, back of the End-less Caverns, in the winter of 1905. He was sure thatthey were Passenger Pigeons, as he had helped to trapmany of them in his boyhood days. Unfortunatelyfew of the younger generations know what a Pas-senger Pigeon looked like, and this was brought out toProf. Hodges chagrin many times during his inves-tigations. The old men are always to be dependedupon, they knew the birds intimately, they cannot err,and it should be noted that very few greybeardsclaim to have seen them in recent years. We mustadmit that those elderly men like C. W. Dickinson,who say that they have seen them of late, have a mostexcellent case. The

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