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Title: Birds and nature
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Birds Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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Near Frankfort, in said that the area occupied was small the same state, he saw an immense num- and only about eight miles long. This ber and says: They were flying, with species has been practically, if not quite great steadiness and rapidity, at a height exterminated by the unsportsmanlike beyond gunsljot, in several strata deep, methods of hunting them. So numerous and so closely together that, could shot and countless were the Pigeons in the have reached them, one discharge could flocks at the nesting and roosting places not have failed of bringing down several that a gun seemed a totally useless wea- individuals. From right to left, far as pon for the hunt. Wholesale methods eye could reach, the breadth of this vast of destruction were followed, and they procession extended, seeming every- were caught in nets, or knocked to the where equally crowded. Curiosity de- earth with poles. It is said that in the termined Mr. Wilson to find out how Michigan nesting period of 1881 at least
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nOM COU. RUTHVEN DEANE. 125 PASSENGER PIGEON. (Ectopistes migratorius).Y-i. Life-size. COPYRIGHT 1900, BY A. W. MUMFORO, CHICAGO five hundred men were engaged in net- 352 live birds; an equal number wasting the birds and it was thought by one sent by water. We have, adding thePigeon netter they may have captured thousands of dead and wounded onestwenty thousand birds apiece during the not secured, and the myriads of squabsseason. But this was not the worst fea- left dead in the nest, at the lowest pos-ture of this inhuman method of hunting, sible estimate, a grand total of 1,000,-Large trees containing a number of 000,000 Pigeons sacrificed to Mammonnests were cut down in order to obtain during the nesting of 1878. Regard-the fat young birds or squabs. Another ing the estimate of Professor Roney,excellent account, which helps to show Captain Bendire has said: The lastwhy the Passenger Pigeon has been mentioned figure i$ undoubtedly farnearly exterminated, is that of Professor above th

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