Mershon, William Butts, 1856-

The passenger pigeon, by W.B. Mershon. - New York, The Outing Publishing Company, 1907. - xii, p., 1 l., 225 p. col. front., 7 pl. (1 col.) facism. 25 cm.

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. Ridgway.--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 OoÌlogist".--Miscellaneous notes.

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