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while journeying along a railway cut, saw a large 

 bird perched on a tree among a band of mourning 

 doves. He killed the bird, and showed it, a couple of 

 hours afterwards, to Captain Hough and a friend. 

 This incident the Captain says, is fully described in 

 ]\lershon\s great book on "The Passenger Pigeons," 

 published in 1907. When Captain Hcugli was a young 

 man in Iowa, in the Seventies, he recalls often see- 

 ing flocks of several hundred Passenger Pigeons mi- 

 grating in the spring and fall. Sometimes they would 

 alight on the feeding beds provided for cattle, even 

 in feed troughs, where they were potted by the farmer 

 boys with their old-fashioned shot guns. — H. W. S., 

 Nov. 6, 1918. 



H. H. Gallup, McKean County Man, Hears Wild 

 Pigeon 



H. H. Gallup, of Betula, McKean County, writes 

 as follows: "I thought I heard a cock pigeon crow 

 two years ago last Spring while in the sugar bush, 

 but C. W. Dickinson thinks differently, and as 1 never 

 heard it again, no doubt I was mistaken. I have seen 

 the fields so covered wdth birds that you could not see 

 the ground, and when they are feeding, they seem to 

 roll over one another, the rear to the front, in countless 

 thousands, a sight that the present and future genera- 

 tions can never realize — for they are gone forever." 

 (1918.) 



