Index:The Passenger Pigeon - Mershon.djvu

Title	The Passenger Pigeon
Author	William Butts Mershon
Year	1907
Publisher	The Outing Publishing Company
Location	New York
Source	djvu
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Validated in	January 2010

Pages (key to Page Status)

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
	Introduction	ix
I	My Boyhood Among the Pigeons	1
II	The Passenger Pigeon From "American Ornithology," by Alexander Wilson	9
III	The Passenger Pigeon From "Ornithological Biography," by John James Audubon	25
IV	As James Fenimore Cooper Saw It	41
V	The Wild Pigeon of North America By Chief Pokagon, in "The Chautauquan"	48
VI	The Passenger Pigeon From "Life Histories of North American Birds," by Charles Bendire	60
VII	Netting the Pigeons By William Brewster, in "The Auk"	74
VIII	Efforts to Check the Slaughter By Prof. H. B. Roney	77
IX	The Pigeon Butcher's Defense By E. T. Martin, in "American Field"	93
X	Notes on a Vanished Industry	105
XI	Recollections of "Old Timers"	119
XII	The Last of the Pigeons	141
XIII	What Became of the Wild Pigeon? By Sullivan Cook, in "Forest and Stream"	163
XIV	A Novel Theory of Extinction By C. H. Ames and Robert Ridgway	173
XV	News from John Burroughs	179
XVI	The Pigeon in Manitoba By George E. Atkinson	186
XVII	The Passenger Pigeon in Confinement By Ruthven Deane, in "The Auk"	200
XVIII	Nesting Habits of the Passenger Pigeon By Dr. Morris Gibbs, in "The Oölogist"	209
XIX	Miscellaneous Notes	217

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