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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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hereafter call the Passenger PigeonBcfopistes canadensis (Linnaeus). HARRY C. OBERHOLSER. In the same issue of Science John AI. Clarke,Director of the Xew York State Aluseum, transmits aletter from M. Rasmussen, of Amsterdam, N. Y., whoclaims to have seen a flock of about thirty wildpigeons in a buckwheat field on October 1, 1918. Heis sure of his identification apart from seeing theflock, by the whistling sound of their wings, hav-ing seen wild pigeons near Ithaca, about twenty yearsago. Captain Emerson Hough, in commenting on theabove statement, says that a mourning doves wingsSvhistle the same as a wild pigeons, also that no one^an remember a peculiar sound exactly after twentyyears, and even tame pigeons have an audible whistleto their wings when in flight. He adds that doves,Svhen seen at a distance invariably look large, and itis incredible that if the flocks of pigeons which are re-ported as being seen somewhere every year, do notincrease, and become plentiful again. H. A\. S.
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SAMUEL N. RHOADS THE PASSENGER PIGEON IN PENNSYLVANIA 205 CHARLES H. ELDON, TAXIDERMIST, 331 W. Fourth Street, Williamsport, Pa. WiLUAMSPORT, Pa., Jan. 16, 1919.Coi.. Henry W. Shoemaker, Washington, D. C. Dear Col. Shoemaker: Replying to your inquiry concerning my earlyknowledge of the passenger pigeon, I wish to say: Inmy boyhood days I lived in Bendersville, Pa., tenmiles north of Gettysburg. Near our village was tim-ber land, locally known as the Big Hill, which was afavorite nesting place for the passenger pigeon. Thecoming of the birds in the spring-time was heraldedwith delight by hunters. I have been on the mountainwith my father and have seen the birds in vast num-bers, the trees being so completely covered that thebirds to my boyish eyes appeared as massive leaves.In memory I can still see them fluttering and lightingupon the swaying branches, and here and therethrough the timber could be distinctly heard thebreaking of the limbs from the weight of the birds.The fluttering of

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