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<dd>Introduction.--My boyhood among the pigeons.--The passenger pigeon, from "American ornithology." by A. Wilson.--The passenger pigeon, from "Ornithological biography," by J. J. Audubon.--As James Fenimore Cooper saw it.--The wild pigeon of North America, by Chief Pokagon, in "The Chautauquan."--The passenger pigeon, from "Life histories of North American birds," by C. Bendire.--Netting the pigeons, by W. Brewster, in "The Auk."--Efforts to check the slaughter, by Prof. H. B. Roney.--The pigeon butcher's defense, by E. F. Martin, in "American field."--Notes of a vanished industry.--Recollections of "old timers."--The last of the pigeons.--What became of the wild pigeon? By S. Cook, in "Forest and stream."--A novel theory of extinction, by C. H. Ames and R. Ridgeway.--News from John Burroughs.--The pigeon in Manitoba, by G. E. Atkinson.--The passenger pigeon in confinement by R. Deane, in "The Auk."--Nesting habits of the passenger pigeon, by Dr. M. Gibbs, in "The oölogist."--Miscellaneous notes</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Passenger pigeon</div>
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Mershon, William Butts, 1856-</div>
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