THE PASSENGER PIGEON IN PENNSYLVANIA 



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craws. So, we can't believe that the passenger pigeon 

 has become extinct. But they will never nest in Penn- 

 sylvania again; for there is not enough forest left for 

 a body of pigeons to nest in." That is the conclusion 

 of about all the older men who were familiar with 

 pigeons. 



The pigeons did not all leave Pennsylvania, as above 

 stated; for Mr. Oscar Huff, of White Deer, Pennsyl- 

 vania, states that they had a nesting, from May to late 

 ill June, 1886, near Blossburg, on the timber land of 

 Drake, Cummings & Company ; and thousands of 

 squabs were killed with poles in the little trees during 

 the bark-peeling time of that year. 



