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T. E. Douglas of Grayling reports seeing a flock of 

 ten near West Branch, Mich., in 1895, and in 1900 he 

 saw three on one of the branches of the Au Sable River 

 in Michigan. 



In 1897 C. S. Osborn of Sault Ste Marie reported 

 having seen a single wild bird flying with the tame 

 pigeons around the town. 



In 1897 or 1898 C. E. Jennison of Bay City saw six 

 or seven at Thunder Bay Island near Alpena, Mich. 



In 1900 Neal Brown of Wausau, Wis., killed one 

 near Babcock, Wis., in September. 



George King of Otsego County, Mich., in 1900 saw 

 a flock of one dozen or more birds on the Black River, 

 and he says he heard two "holler" in 1902, but was 

 unable to find them. In May, 1905, he is certain he saw 

 six near Vanderbilt, Mich. 



John Burroughs reports that a friend of his, Charles 

 W. Benton, saw a large flock of wild pigeons near 

 Prattsville, Greene County, N. Y., in April, 1906. 



EARLY LEGISLATION TO SAVE THE PIGEON 



Wild pigeons were used largely by trap-shooters for 

 tournaments. In 1881, 20,000 of them were killed in 

 one of these trap-shooting butcheries on Coney Island, 

 N. Y. The following editorial protest against this out- 

 rage appeared in Forest and Stream, July 14, 1881 : 



