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directions, implements of delicate 

 workmanship occur in more or less 

 abundance? Can it be that the work- 

 man was a novice in that branch of 

 industry? Allen Jesse Reynolds. 

 Connersville, Ind. 



Wild Pigeons in Nebraska 



A recent report from Nebraska states 

 that a flock of from seventy-five to 

 one hundred wild, or passenger, pigeons 

 had been seen in that State. This will be 

 interesting news to those who remember 

 the birds when they flew in countless 

 thousands like dark rivers, across the 

 sky during the spring migrations. 

 Some grizzled old trappers, who regu- 

 larly followed the flight of pigeons and 

 netted them by thousands per week have 

 for years gone on hoping against hope 

 that the flight of pigeons had merely 

 been diverted from the old routes, and 

 that the birds would some day reappear 

 in all their former numbers. This idea 

 of course is erroneous; the pigeons are 

 not haunting inaccessible sections of the 

 country, they have been destroyed. 

 During the early autumn of '87 I shot a 

 lone pigeon, a male of that year, near the 

 city of Eau Claire, Wis., and a few days 

 later I saw a flock of perhaps twenty- 

 five birds flying low near where I had 

 shot the single one. In March, 1894, 

 while traveling by train near London, 

 Ont., I saw four pigeons fly east. The 

 day was very mild, with a warm rain 

 falling, and the pigeons passed in plain 

 view. It was just the sort of day we used 

 to deem the best for pigeons in the long 

 ago when one gun could bag more birds 

 than a man could carry. — Ed. W. 



Sandys, in November Outing. 



Mr. W. S. Townsend, of Perry Ok- 

 lahoma, reports that last June a farm- 

 er living 12 miles east of the town, 

 caught with steel traps a pair of Albino 

 Turkey Vultures. Both were taken 

 the same day and were undoubtedly 

 mates. The female, fl should judge by 

 her si2e) has a few black feathers on 

 her wings and back. They are now 

 owned by a second-hand dealer of this 

 city. Wild Pigeons are still quite com- 

 mon in parts of Indian Territorty. 



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Notes. 



We are promised a fine article from 

 the pen of our friend, Mr. Van Epps 

 for our January number. Many of 

 our subscribers remember the series of 

 articles on the Mohawk Country 

 contributed to the Museum a year or 

 so ago. This time we shall hear 

 about an interesting cave in Central 

 New York. 



"Sketches of Some Common Birds" 

 by P. M. Silloway is at hand. This 

 is a neat volume of goo pages on the 

 bird life of the Mississippi Valley. 

 Most ornithologists are familiar with 

 the writings of Prof. Silloway on bird 

 life and will welcome this volume with 

 delight. The notes have been collect- 

 ed from a great many years of close 

 study, and teem with interest through- 

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