28 THE PASSENGER PIGEON IN PENNSYLVANIA 



Eastern North America ; and they persisted so long in 

 Pennsylvania and adjacent states of the Appalachian 

 regions of mountains and valleys. x\t last they deserted 

 their nesting place, undoubtedly, because the hunters 

 had night-fires, appearing like a forest on fire.) 



EXPLANATORY NOTE. 



Tradition may be wrong, as to the second trip 

 having been in 1810. Alost likely, the second trip was 

 made in 1814, the* first one in 1810, as written history 

 gives 1809 as the beginning of settlements in Potter 

 County, near- Coudersport, and 1810 at Roulette and 

 Burtville, although the same authority says that Mr. 

 Jaundrie had a shingle-covered and sided house, and a 

 cleared field at Jaundrie's Creek, at the town of 

 Shinglehouse on the Oswayo, in 1806 ; also that a Mr. 

 Butler had lived there previous to 1797. Perhaps the 

 renegade, Walter Butler, from Tryon County, New 

 York, sought asylum there for a few years. 





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