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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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ld Pigeon. While in Edin-burgh, in the winter of 1827 he prepared and read apaper entitled Habits of the Wild Pigeon of Americabefore the members of a learned society of that city.He began the preparation of the paper and kept at thework during an entire day finishing it at half pastthree in the morning; so completely said he, was hetransported to the woods of America and to the pig-eons, that his ears were as if really filled with thenoise of their wings. Evidently the poetry and ro-mance of the pigeons were in his soul, as with everyother out-door American who came in contact withthem, or learned to know them in his dreams as theresult of conversations with the old people. If thespirits of the dead hover in the ether surrounding theirfinal seputure the soul of Audubon must have beenstirred that wild night in the autumn of 1876 whenas the result of a heavy storm in the Hudson valley alarge flock of those wonderful birds appelc ici WildPigeon were driven into the Trinity Cemetery, and
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STOOL PIGEON BASKET Constructed and Used by Bernet Rynearson, Huntersville, Lycoming County, Pa. 164 THE PASSENGER PIGEON IN PENNSYLVANIA tish dialect, and became a contributor to The Bee,lampooning a resident of Paisley; for which he wascondemned to a short term in prison, and to burn thelibel, with his own hand, at the Paisley cross. Dis-gusted at this unappreciation of his genius, he sailedfrom Belfast and landed at New Castle, Delaware,July 14, 1794, with a few borrowed shillings in hispocket, and no acquaintances in the Land of the Free.At Philadelphia, he found employment with a cop-per-plate printer, and later, he worked for a weaver;then, as a peddler, he travelled through New Jersey,where the brilliant plumage of the wild birds attractedhis attention. Then he returned to Pennsylvania andbecame a school teacher, for a while, then walked 800miles to visit his nephew, in New York state, returningto New Jersey, where he taught school, living nearthe botanic gardens of William Bar

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