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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 |
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