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Mershon, W. B.

Publication info:
New York,The Outing publishing company,1907.

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LEADER

• Record Status: n
• Type of record: a
• Bibliographic level: m
• Type of control:
• Undefined: a
• Encoding level: I
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CONTROL FIELD

• Control Field 001: 2529052

CONTROL FIELD

• Control Field 005: 19960206000000.0

CONTROL FIELD

• Control Field 008: 761025s1907 xx 000 0 engs

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER

• LC control number: 07012260

SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER

• System control number: ocm02529052

CATALOGING SOURCE

• Original cataloging agency: DLC
• Transcribing agency: OHI
• Modifying agency: HDC
• Modifying agency: SER
• Modifying agency: YAM

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER

• Classification number: QL696.C6
• Item number: M6 1907

LOCAL CALL NUMBER

• Local class number: QL696.C6
• Local Cutter number: M6 1907

MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME

• Personal name: Mershon, W. B.

TITLE STATEMENT

• Title: The passenger pigeon,
• Remainder of title page transcription/statement of responsibility: by W. B. Mershon.

PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)

• Place of publication, distribution, etc.: New York,
• Name of publisher, distributor, etc.: The Outing publishing company,
• Date of publication, distribution, etc.: 1907.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

• Extent: xii p., 1 ., 225 p.
• Other physical details: col. front., 7 pl. (1 col.) facism.
• Dimensions: 24 1/2 cm.

FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE

• Formatted contents note: 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 Oist".--Miscellaneous notes.

SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM

• Topical term or geographic name as entry element: Pigeons.

DATA FIELD 935

• Code a: 29220