passenger pigeon.
Publisher: Outing
Published: 1907
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
Subjects: Pigeons
Table of contents: value: Introduction; My boyhood among the pigeons; The passenger pigeon, by Alexander Wilson; The passenger pigeon, by John James Audubon; As James Fenimore Cooper saw it; The wild pigeon of North America, by Chief Pokagon; The passenger pigeon, by Charles Bendire; Netting the pigeons, by William Brewster; Efforts to check the slaughter, by H.B. Roney; The pigeon butcher's defense, by E.T. Martin; Notes of a vanished industry; Recollections of "Old Timers"; The last of the pigeons; What became of the wild pigeon? by Sullivan Cook; A novel theory of extinction, by C.H. Ames and Robert Ridgway; News from John Burroughs; The pigeon in Manitoba, by George E. Atkinson; The passenger pigeon in confinement, by Ruthven Deane; Nesting habits of the passenger pigeon, by Morris Gibbs; Miscellaneous notes.