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Passenger Pigeon

Name: Passenger Pigeon
Author: William B. Mershon

William B. Mershon

Read by Maria Kasper · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

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Introduction (7:24)
My Boyhood Among the Pigeons (13:06)
The Passenger Pigeon - from American Ornithology by Alexander Wilson (27:01)
The Passenger Pigeon - from Ornithological Biography by John James Audubon (25:53)
As James Fenimore Cooper Saw It (9:56)
The Wild Pigeon of North America - by Chief Pokagon in The Chautauquan (21:08)
The Passenger Pigeon - from Life Histories of N. American Birds by Charles Bendire (22:37)
Netting the Pigeons - by William Brewster in The Auk (4:21)
Efforts to Check the Slaughter by Prof. H. B. Roney (26:25)
The Pigeon Butcher's Defense - by E. T. Martin in American Field (21:19)
Notes of a Vanished Industry (23:35)
Recollections of Old Timers (32:30)
The Last of the Pigeons (36:17)
What Became of the Wild Pigeon? by Sullivan Cook in Field and Stream (16:05)
A Novel Theory of Extinction by C.H. Ames and Robert Ridgway (9:18)
News From John Burroughs (11:21)
The Pigeon in Manitoba - by George E. Atkinson (23:48)
The Passenger Pigeon in Confinement - by Ruthven Deane in The Auk (13:56)
Nesting Habits of The Passenger Pigeon - by Dr. Morris Gibbs in The Oologist (12:54)
Miscellaneous Notes (14:28)