26 THE PASSENGER PIGEON IN PENNSYLVANIA 



Francis King of Ceres made the trip over again, by 

 canoe to Cornplanter's town ; thence on foot, returning 

 across the segment of a circle made by the river in its 

 northward sweep through fifty miles of New York; 

 thence southw^ard again into Warren county, Pennsyl- 

 vania. They went up Sugar Run, near the boundary 

 line between Warren and McKean counties, to the mag- 

 nificent beech timber around Marshburg; thence down 

 to Kinzua Creek in Lafayette township (which was 

 presented to Marquis de Lafayette in 1824 by William 

 Bingham of Philadelphia, wdien the distinguished 

 Frenchman revisited us. It w^as parcelled and sold 

 to settlers, at a later date, after a forest road had been 

 made through it, from the Clarion river valley to the 

 Allegheny at Kinzua, Pennsylvania). They went up 

 the Kinzua valley, crossed the hills to Colegrove ; 

 thence through Norwich township ai.d dow^n Parker 

 Creek in Liberty township ; thence up Heath Creek m 

 Keating township to the Lookout and down Reed's 

 run to the Allegheny river, in Roulette township, and 

 up the river to Coudersport, Pa. 



They saw^ pigeons all the way. in that vigorous hard- 

 wood belt, beech predominating, and visited fifteen 

 nesting colonies ; besides hearing of five colonies north 

 of the Allegheny in Cattaraugus county, New York, 

 which they did not visit. They decided that the es- 

 timate of twenty million adult birds in the Allegheny 

 nesting city of Passenger Pigeons was conservative for 

 the year of 1810. During the same month reliable ob- 

 servers have recorded other pigeon cities of equal pro- 



