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head hollow of Sugar Run, ]\IcKean County that was 

 about square and smaller, about thirty rods by thirty 

 rods, but the trees were much thicker and larger, giv- 

 ing nest room for nearly as many. I never saw a 

 round 'city' nor heard of any. As shooting is more 

 controlled, I expect to see the Passenger Pigeon return 

 in summer, despite the claim of being extinct since 

 1890, or so. In 1901, I saw a pair in June, on Grant's 

 Run, near Grantonia post office in Elk county ; in 

 1904, Mr. J. W. Cunningham, a revenue officer, saw 

 a small flock near the Big Sandy river in Kentucky. 

 In 1906, William Hazen and his son, saw five pigeons 

 several times feeding on their buckwheat field in 

 August, here in Roulette. Now there is room for a 

 doubt, but all of these men knew the wild pigeon well 

 and believe they saw them. I am also certain of the 

 pair that I saw in 1901. They lit in a juniper tree 

 within six rods of where I sat upon a log with my 

 wife, to whom I pointed them out and discussed the 

 peculiarly red-tinted breast of the cock and the mod- 

 est grey suit of his mate; also remarking to Mrs. 

 French that they were not extinct then, as we had 

 heard so often for the previous decade. An old time 

 Wisconsin timber cruiser who knew wild pigeons well 

 thirty-five years ago or more, was looking over some 

 pine timber (Araucarian) in ChiH in 1912 and re- 

 ported that he saw millions of the genuine old tim€ 

 Passenger Pigeons far within the Andean solitudes. 

 Faye H. Rohartt, a noted historical writer of Mc- 



