CONTENTS 



CHAPTER PAGE 



Introduction ....... ix 



I My Boyhood Among the Pigeons . . . i 



II The Passenger Pigeon ..... 9 



From "American Ornithology," by Alexander IVilson 



III The Passenger Pigeon ..... 25 



From "Ornithological Biography," by John James Audubon 



IV As James Fenimore Cooper Saw It . . -41 



V The Wild Pigeon of North America . . 48 



By Chief Pokagon, in " The Chautauquan" 



VI The Passenger Pigeon ..... 60 



From " Life Histories of North American Birds," by 

 Charles Bendire 



VII Netting the Pigeons ...... 74 



By William Brewster, in "The Auk " 



VIII Efforts to Check the Slaughter ... 77 

 By Prof. H. B. Roney 



IX The Pigeon Butcher's Defense ... 93 



By E. T. Martin, in "American Field" 



X Notes of a Vanished Industry .... 105 



XI Recollections of "Old Timers" . . .119 



XII The Last of the Pigeons ..... 141 



XI n What Became of the Wild Pigeon? . . 163 



By Sullivan Cook, in " Forest and Stream " 



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