222 The Passenger Pigeon 



In October, 1895, Dr. Ernest Copeland of Mil- 

 waukee killed one in Delta, Northern Peninsula, Mich. 



On December 17, 1896, C. N. Holden, Jr., while 

 hunting quail in Oregon County, Mo., observed a flock 

 of about fifty birds. 



Chief Pokagon reports there was a small nesting of 

 pigeons near the head waters of the Au Sable River in 

 Michigan, during the spring of 1896. 



A. Fugleburg of Oshkosh, Wis., reports that on the 

 morning of August 14, 1897, he saw a flock of pigeons 

 flying over Lake Winnebago from Fisherman's Island 

 to Stony Brook. This flock was followed by six more 

 flocks containing from thirty-five to eighty pigeons each. 

 The same observer reports that on September 2, 1897, 

 a friend of his reported having seen a flock of about 

 twenty-five near Lake Butte des Mortes, Wis. 



W. F. Rightmire reports that while driving along 

 the highway north of Cook, Johnson County, Neb., 

 August 18, 1897, he saw a flock of seventy-five to one 

 hundred birds; some feeding on the ground, others 

 perched in the trees. 



A. B. Covert of Ann Arbor, President at one time of 

 the Michigan Ornithological Club, reports seeing stray 

 birds during 1892 and 1894, and states also that on 

 October i, 1898, he saw a flock of 200 and watched 

 them nearly all day. 



