THE PASSENGER PIGEON IN PENNSYLVANIA 189 



find another bird to take its place, Martha remained 

 in solitary widowhood until she died. 



Martha herself was hatched in captivity in the 

 Cincinnati Zoo. At the time of her death she was 

 29 years old. Her last illness had been a matter of 

 concern to onithologists the world over, and the Cin- 

 cinnati agent of the Audubon Societies had been 

 instructed to communicate at once with leading orni- 

 thologists and naturalists of the country as soon as 

 she died. — Altoona Tribune. 



List of Mounted Passenger Pigeons, at Academy of 

 Natural Sciences (Third Floor), Logan Square, 

 Philadelphia. 



No. 49,899, fine mature male, from Dr. Charles 

 Shaeffer. 



No. 24,291, young male. 



No. 24,292, young male, (fine specimen), gift of 

 Dr. T. B. Wilson. 



No. 13,301, mature female. 



No. 13,299, young female, gift of Dr. T. B. Wilson. 



Emerson Hough on the Wild Pigeons 



Captain Emerson Hough, the noted authority on 

 western life, in a recent conversation with the writer, 

 stated that the last Passenger Pigeon which he saw was 

 killed by a retired railroad conductor, in Wisconsin, 

 the first week in September, 1897. The conductor 



