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■ •1" shots over a considerable area, several aeres, sometimes tlie whole roost woiiUi' 

 rise with a deafening thnnderina;, which no one has attempted to deserihe, and, 

 soar ont of sight in the dusk of the early evening, while from the rising chtiid 

 came a noise as of a mighty tornado. As tin- (hirkness settled the birds descended 

 and alighted many deej^ upon the limbs of the trees, the weight being so great as 

 to break many oft". Then the scene changed. The slaughter I)egan in earnest. 

 The rapid firing of guns, the squawking of the ])igeons, the breaking of ihc limbs 

 T)f giant trees beneath their living weight, the continuous rumble arising from the 

 whirr of countless wings, all illumined by the lurid lights from many tires, pio- 

 duced an effect which no words can convey to one who has not experienced a 

 night at a " pigeon roost." Each year such scenes were re-enacted. Each year the 

 slaughter went on. Less and less the numbers grew. Trapping and netting, sup- 

 plemented by repeating guns, added to the power of destruction, and the i>igeon>. 

 whose numbers were once so great that no one could conceive the thought of their 

 extinction, have dwindled until they are rarely found, until they are only a 

 meniorv. 



Some Notes on the Blind Animals of Mammoth Cave, with Exhuutkin. 

 OK Specimens. By K. Ellsworth Call. 



The Batrachians and Reptiles of Wahash CotNTV. liv W. < ). Wallack- 



On the Occurrence of the WiiisTLiN(i Swan in Wai'.ash Coi nty. By A. 

 B. Ulrey. 



Birds of Wakash County. JJv A. B. Ulrey and W. O. Wallac e. 



Birds Observed in the Sawtooth Mountains. Hy B. W. Kvermann ani- 



J. T. SCOVELL. 



Animal Parasites Collected in the State During the Year, By A, W 

 HrrTiNo. 



