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pigeons fly against the perpendicular nets, he pulls the 

 rope, when the top net immediately falls and incloses 

 the whole flock; by this process vast numbers are taken." 



"Tanner's Narrative," a story (authentic) of thirty 

 years among the Indians, published in 1830, refers fre- 

 quently to great numbers of pigeons, and gives their 

 range from the Kentucky, Big Miami and Ohio Rivers 

 to Lake Winnipeg, or "The Lake of Dirty Waters." 



Mr. Osborn further adds: "Tanner was a United 

 States Indian Interpreter at the Soo." 



William Glazier made a trip to the headwaters of 

 the Mississippi River In 1881 and wrote a book entitled 

 "Down the Mississippi River." In three different 

 places In this book he mentions seeing wild pigeons. In 

 one place he says that a small flock of pigeons dropped 

 down In the tops of some tall pines near him. 



In Hayden's Survey Report, Interior Department, as 

 given In Coues' "Birds of the Northwest," 1874, it is 

 mentioned that wild pigeons were found on the Pacific 

 coast, and Cooper reports them In the Rocky Moun- 

 tains. [High authority, but It must have referred to 

 the band-tailed pigeon. — W. B. M.] 



From the foregoing chapters I have summarized the 

 latest reports of the presence of the wild pigeon In Its 

 former haunts. These Instances have been reported as 

 follows : 



