THE PASSENGER PIGEON IN PENNSYLVANIA 221 



address as you may elect. I overlooked in my former 

 letter to say the pigeon that forms the suhject of this 

 letter was killed on tlie old Mncher I lomestcack lui- 

 closed also, is a copy of a letter received from the (gen- 

 eral Manager of the Cincinnati Zoological Company, 

 which will explain itself later on. Mr. Stcpliaii wrote 

 me tclluiy mc of llic death of tlic f\isscii(/cr Pigeon 

 which occurred on Saturday, August 2(), iqi /, at two 

 o'clock P. M., in the Zoological Harden, Cincinnati, 

 Ohio, it being the last of a flock of seventeen tliat 7vas 

 captured in the year iS/6. 



During my search for the letter 1 came across 

 a wealth of information gleaned from repeated talks 

 with Mr. Bennett upon his favorite topic — the 

 Passenger Pigeon — even more comprehensive if pos- 

 sible, than the papers given you, shows that life 

 habits of the birds which have been aptly told, in 

 their varying forms, and will be a wonderful addi- 

 tion for a revised edition of the book, if you do not 

 care to delay this the first issue for their in- 

 sertion. T was greatly pleased to find this mem- 

 oranda, and will some day put this item in readable 

 form as soon as the present business rush is over. I 

 have a drawing made by Mr. Pennett, showing the 

 method of setting the nets and method of springing 

 the net, and throwing same by spring poles over the 

 birds, location of bough houses and stool pigeons, etc. 

 T cannot find the clip])ing from Grit, giving an ac 

 count of Old Home Week in which was given a de- 

 scription of my exhibit of ])igeon trapping outfit which 



