THE PASSENGER PIGEON IN PENNSYLVANIA 



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work of finding its own food and learning how to fly, 

 which requires only a few days of practice, when the 

 squab hastens to rejoin its kindred, in the distant home 

 they have selected and migrated to, soon after their 

 young fluttered from the nests to begin active life in a 

 wide world, where their natural enemies sought their 

 destruction, making them hustle. 



