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for notes and observations regarding this species, %vhich cover a period 

 of eight j-ears. I have various other records of the occurrence of the 

 Pigeon in Illinois and Indiana but do not consider them sufficiently 

 authentic to record, as to the casual observer this species and the Carolina 

 Dove are often confounded. 



A fine male Pigeon was killed by my brother, Mr. Chas. E. Deane, April 

 18, 1877, while shooting Snipe on the meadows near English Lake, Ind. 

 The bird was alone and flew directly over him. I have the specimen 

 now in my collection. 



In September, 1SS8, while Teal shooting on Yellow River, Stark Co., 

 Ind., I saw a Pigeon fly up the river and alight a short distance off. I 

 secured the bird which proved to be a young female. 



On Sept. 17, 1887, Mr. John F. Hazen and his daughter Grace, of Cin- 

 cinnati, Ohio, while boating on the Kankakee River, near English Lake, 

 Ind., observed a small flock of Pigeons feeding in a little oak grove bor- 

 dering the river. They reported the birds as quite tame and succeeded 

 in shooting eight specimens. 



Mr. Frank M. Woodruff, Assistant Curator, Chicago Academy of Sci- 

 ences, informs me that on Dec 10, 1890, he received four Passenger Pig- 

 eons in the flesh, from Waukegan, III., at which locality they were said 

 to have been shot. Three of the birds were males and one was a female. 

 One pair he disposed of, the other two I have recently seen in his col- 

 lection. In the fall of 1891 Mr. Woodruff also shot a pair at Lake Forest, 

 111., which he mounted and placed in the collection of the Cook County 

 Normal School, Englewood, 111. 



In the spring of 1893, Mr. C B. Brown, of Chicago, 111., collected a 

 nest of the Wild Pigeon containing two eggs at English Lake, Ind., and 

 secured both parent birds. Mr. Brown describes the nest as being placed 

 on the horizontal branch of a burr oak about ten feet from the trunk and 

 from forty to fifty feet above the ground. He did not preserve the birds 

 but the eggs are still in his collection. The locality where this nest was 

 found was a short distance from where the Hazens found their birds six 

 years before. 



Mr. John F. Ferry informs me that three Pigeons were seen near the 

 Desplaines River in Lake Co., 111., in September, 1S93. One of these was 

 shot by Mr. F. C Farwell. 



In an article which appeared in the Chicago 'Tribune," Nov. 25, 1894, 

 entitled 'Last of his Race,' Mr. E. B. Clark gives his experience in 

 observing a fine male Wild Pigeon in Lincoln Park, Chicago, 111., in April, 

 1893. I quote from the article: " He was perched on the limb of a soft 

 maple and was facing the rising sun. I have never seen in any cabinet 

 a more perfect specimen. The tree upon which he was resting was at 

 the southeast corner of the park. There were no trees between him and 

 the lake to break from his breast the fullness of the glory of the rising 

 sun. The Pigeon allowed me to approach within twenty yards of his 

 resting place and I watched him through a powerful glass that permitted 



