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of my home in the country. These two birds remained 

 there some time; they were about 300 feet away, and 

 we examined them carefully through our glasses and 

 they were Passenger Pigeons. 



I have seen them, perhaps one or two a season, the 

 past twenty years in the Genesee Valley. I don't think 

 there is any possibility of a mistake. They were very 

 common when I was a boy in Minnesota and my peo- 

 ple used to put down every season two or three big 

 crocks of them for use in the winter time. 



George J. French. 

 Rochester, N. Y., January 19th. 



POSTSCRIPT. 



39 Mill Street, Smethport, Pa., Jan. 22, 1919. 

 Colonel Henry W. Shoemaker, 



Washington, D. C. : 



Dear Colonel — Knowing you to be a man who 

 likes to keep track of natural history and a man who 

 is trying to keep a tab on the birds and animals that 

 have become extinct in our country, we thought the 

 following might interest you : 



In the fore part of September, 1918, as we were 

 going to our war garden, which is in the town of 

 Concord, Mass., we saw a flock of about 200 beautiful 

 Passenger Pigeons. There is not a possible chance 

 for us to be mistaken about these birds, for the sky 

 was clear, the sun shone bright and the birds passed 

 within 150 feet of us, so we had a fair view of them. 



