NOTES 



THE FLYING CLOWN 



Chordeiles virginianus, the Nighthawk or Bull-bat. 



Bird Migration (Cooke), pages 5, 7, 9. 



Nature Sketches in Temperate America (Hancock), pages 246- 

 48. 



Birds in their Relation to Man (Weed and Dearborn), pages 

 178-80. 



Bird-Lore, vol. 20 (1918), page 285. 



Educational Leaflet No. 1. (National Association of Audubon 

 Societies.) 



THE LOST DOVE 



Ectopistes migratoriiis, the Passenger Pigeon. 



'^How can a billion doves be lost?" 



History of North American Birds (Baird, Brewer and Ridgway), 

 vol. 3, pages 368-74. 



Michigan Bird Life (Barrows), pages 238-51, 



Birds that Hunt and are Hunted (Blanchan), pages 294-96. 



Travels of Birds (Chapmaa), pages 73-74. 



Birds of Ohio (Dawson and Jones), pages 425-27. 



Passenger Pigeon (Mershon). 



Natural History of the Farm (Needham), pages 114-15. ''The 

 wild pigeon was the first of our fine game birds to disappear. Its 

 social habits were its undoing, when once guns were brought to its 

 pursuit. It flew in great flocks, which were conspicuous and noisy, 

 and which the hunter could follow by qjq and ear, and mow down 

 with shot at every resting-place. One generation of Americans 

 found pigeons in 'inexhaustible supply'; the next saw them van- 

 ish — vanish so quickly, that few museums even sought to keep 

 specimens of their skins or their nests or their eggs; the third gen- 

 eration (which we represent) marvels at the true tales of their 

 aforetime abundance, and at the swiftness of their passing; and it 

 allows the process of extermination to go on only a little more 

 slowly with other fine native species." 



Bird Study Book (Pearson), pages 128-29. "Passenger Pigeons 

 as late as 1870 were frequently seen in enormous flocks. Their 

 numbers during the periods of migration were one of the greatest 



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