262 



General Notes. 



r Auk 

 (.April 



" Pidgeon Bate 1847. 



found 9 bushel of Buckwheat 



paid Benj Barret four dollars and 



fifty cents for Buckwheat 

 paid Jonas farnell $2.00 for wheat 

 paid Saml Manning $1.50 for wheat 

 paid Edson $1.00 for work 

 paid Randal Cudry $3.00 for use 



of place 

 paid John Adams $0.50 for use of 



place 

 paid seventy-five cents for other 



articles. 



The amount of Pidgeons taken in 

 1847. 



dozen 



Aug. 26 caut sixteen dozen. 

 Sept. 2 



" 4 



" 6 



" 7 



11. 

 13. 

 16. 

 17. 

 20. 

 23. 

 24. 

 27. 



.16 

 .61^ 

 .25^ 

 .58 

 .42 

 .52J 

 .36 

 34J 



• 52| 

 ..4 

 .10| 

 ..91 



"Pidgeon Bate 1848. 



Apr 29, found one bushel of wheat 

 $1.50 



The amount of Pidgeons taken in 

 1848. 



dozen 

 May 1 three dozen & eight 3.8 



" 8 3.1 



" 15 



"22 



" 29 



June 1 



" 5 



" 7 



" 9 



" 12 



" 16 



" 19 



.3. 

 .4. 

 .3. 

 .3. 



■H 



.5| 



■n 



.2* 



.64 



.2! 



July 



23. 

 26. 



3. 



6. 

 14. 

 17. 



9-3- 



.3. 

 .21 

 .5. 

 .2. 

 .3. 



Aug. 21 2. 



Sept. 4 8. 



5. 

 6. 



7. 

 11. 



•9i 

 .55 

 .6| 



191" 



George H. Mackay, Nantucket, Mass. 



The Passenger Pigeon — Only One Bird Left. — In ' The Auk ' 

 (Vol. XXVI, p. 429, 1909) I published a note entitled " The Passenger 

 Pigeon — Only One Pair Left," it is with deep regret that the title must 

 now read as above. On July 10, 1910, the male bird died at the age of 

 about twenty-five years. Mr. S. A. Stephen, General Manager of the 

 Cincinnati Zoological Society, writes me that the bird apparently died of 

 old age not having shown any signs of tuberculosis, or other disease, but 

 extreme weakness prevented his walking around. The remaining female, 

 and probably the last living one of her race, came from the flock of the late 

 Prof. Charles O. Whitman, and is now about fourteen years old, and in 

 good health and plumage. The male bird was not preserved on account 

 of the poor state of plumage. — Ruthven Deane, Chicago, III. 



