The passenger pigeon
By: by W. B. Mershon
Publisher: The Outing Pub. Co.
Published: 1907
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
Subjects: Passenger pigeon.
Table of contents: title: Introduction.; title: My boyhood among the pigeons.; title: The passenger pigeon, from "American ornithology." by A. Wilson.; title: The passenger pigeon, from "Ornithological biography," by J. J. Audubon.; title: As James Fenimore Cooper saw it.; title: The wild pigeon of North America, by Chief Pokagon, in "The Chautauquan."; title: The passenger pigeon, from "Life histories of North American birds," by C. Bendire.; title: Netting the pigeons, by W. Brewster, in "The Auk."; title: Efforts to check the slaughter, by Prof. H. B. Roney.; title: The pigeon butcher's defense, by E. F. Martin, in "American field."; title: Notes of a vanished industry.; title: Recollections of "old timers."; title: The last of the pigeons.; title: What became of the wild pigeon? By S. Cook, in "Forest and stream."; title: A novel theory of extinction, by C. H. Ames and R. Ridgeway.; title: News from John Burroughs.; title: The pigeon in Manitoba, by G. E. Atkinson.; title: The passenger pigeon in confinement by R. Deane, in "The Auk."; title: Nesting habits of the passenger pigeon, by Dr. M. Gibbs, in "The oölogist."; title: Miscellaneous notes.