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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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DANIEL OTT (1820-1916) CHAPTER XXXII. PIGEON FLOCKS IN WISCONSIN Supposedly Extinct Wild Variety Hover Over Different Sections WITHIN the past two weeks, two large flocks of wild pigeons have been seen in Wisconsin, ac-cording to creditable reports. Ten days ago, people living near Dexterville, Wood County, reported the presence of a flock of about fifty. Half a dozen men saw them and declare they cannot be mistaken that the birds were wild pigeons. A few days later another flock, even larger than that seen at Dexterville, was discovered near New Lisbon. New Lisbon is in the heart of the old nesting grounds, where thirty or forty years ago millions of the birds spent each summer, fed on acorns in the oak groves, hatched their young, and in the fall began their long flight into the south. Last One Was in Captivity The last pigeon of the Passenger variety known to be in the United States, was in captivity in Philadelphia some years ago. Its mate had died, and $500was offered for a female with w

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