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Craig, Wallace. 1911. The Expressions of Emotion in the Pigeons. 

 II. The Mourning Dove (Zcnaidura macroura Linn.) The Auk, 

 Vol. XXVIII, 1911, pp. 398-407). 



Deane, Ruthven. 1896. Passenger Pigeon. The Auk, Vol. XIII, pp. 

 234-237. (Reprinted in Mershon, pp. 200-204). 



Dunn, J. O. 1895. The Passenger Pigeon in the Upper Mississippi 

 Valley. The Auk, Vol. XII, p. 389. 



Gibbs, Morris. 1894. Nesting Habits of the Passenger Pigeon. The 

 Oologist, Vol. XI, 1894, pp. 237-240. (Reprinted in Mershon.) 



Mershon, W. B. 1907. The Passenger Pigeon. New York. Pp. xii + 

 225. Contains reprints and also original matter by many authors, 

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Wilson, Alexander. American Ornithology. Many editions. Art. "Mi- 

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OTHER EARLY RECORDS OF THE PASSENGER PIGEON. 



BY ALBERT HAZEN WRIGHT. 



(Concluded from page 866.) 



Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. 



In 1634, Capt. Thomas Yong, in his 'Voyage, to Virginia 

 and Delaware Bay and River,' found ! " infinite number of wild 

 pidgeons" in the latter region. Some fifty years later (16S3), 

 'A Letter from William Penn,' etc., in speaking "Of the fowl of 

 the land," gives 2 "pigeons" as "in abundance." The same 

 year, February 10, 1683, another letter from Pennsylvania by 

 Thomas Paskel observes that 3 " There are here very great quanti- 

 ties of birds and one hardly thinks it worth while to shoot at ring 

 pigeons . . . . " 'A Collection of Various Pieces concerning Pennsyl- 

 vania,' printed in 1684, finds 4 " The woods are supplied with a 

 quantity of wild birds, as . . . .pigeons, . . . . " 



i Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., Fourth Series, IX, 1871, p. 130. 



2 Proud, Robert. The History of Pennsylvania, etc., Vol. I, 1797, p. 250. 



a Penn. Mag. of Hist, and Biog., Vol. VI, p. 326. 



* Ibid., p. 313. 



