1911 J Wright, Early Records of the Passenger Pigeon. 447 



year later, July 12, 1806 he again 1 "saw . . . ., pigeons, doves; etc. 

 the yellow Currants beginning to ripen." On Aug. 26, 1805 Clark 

 near Shoshone 2 saw "Some fiew Pigions," as did he on July 21, 

 1806 (Missouri River), July 5, 1806, and Feb. 12, 1804 (near St. 

 Louis, Mo.). 3 



In 1811, Brackenridge made a voyage up the Missouri River, 

 and May 7, when near the mouth of the Platte, 4 "killed some 

 pigeons." In 1817, Maj. Stephen H. Long went in a "six-oared 

 skiff to the Falls of Saint Anthony." In the course of his journey, 

 near Lake Pepin, July 18, he 5 "killed a few pigeons." 



In 'A View of the Lead Mines of Missouri' (New York, 1819), 

 Schoolcraft says (p. 37), " pigeons, .... in some parts of the in- 

 terior, are so numerous that the woods seem alive with them." 

 In an 'Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky 

 Mountains, performed in the Years 1819 and '20,' etc., under. . . . 

 Maj. Stephen H. Long," 6 "Columba migratoria — Passenger 

 pigeon (C. Canadensis is the female. Teram.) " occurs in the list 

 of birds; at Engineer Cantonment (Council Bluffs), "Columba 

 migratoria arrived May 2, 1820"; and lastly, August 28, "Several 

 small flocks of the common wild-pigeons flew by us both yesterday 

 and today, in a southerly direction." The same commander, 

 in his expedition to the St. Peter's River, etc., in 1823, when on 

 the above river says: 7 "The party that travelled in the boats, 

 saw abundance of pigeons, but with the exception of these, no 

 other kind of game; .... The land party, although provided with 

 an excellent hunter, killed but a few pigeons; . . . . " 



In 1820, Stephen W. Kearny, in 'A Narrative Account of the 

 Council Bluffs, St. Peter's Military Expedition,' etc., says that 

 July 22, 1820, they 8 " followed up, on the margin of the river, 



1 Lewis and Clark Expedition, Thwaites ed., Vol. V, p. 200. 



2 Ibid., Vol. Ill, p. 44. 



3 Ibid., Vol. V, p. 279; Vol. VI, pp. 169, 221. 



4 Brackenridge, H. M. Views of Louisiana, etc. Pittsburgh, 1814, p. 225. 

 6 Coll. Hist. Soc. Minnesota, Vol. II, p. 44. 



6 James, Edwin. Account of An Expedition. .. .under. .. .Maj. Stephen H. 

 Long, etc. 2 vols., Phila., 1823. Vol. I, p. 373, 377; Vol. II, p. 231. 



7 Keating, William H. Narrative of An Expedition to the Source of St. Peter's 

 River, Lake Winnepeek, Lake of the Woods, etc. Performed in the Year 1823, 

 etc. under. . . .Maj. Stephen H. Long, 2 vols. Phila., 1824, p. 292. 



8 Kearny, Stephen Watts, The 1820 Journal of, edited by V. M. Porter, pp. 23, 

 42. Reprinted from Missouri Hist. Soc. Coll., Vol. Ill, 1908. 



