PASSENGER PIGEON INVESTIGATION 



By C. F. HODGE 



For the first information, exclusive and confidential, of the 

 location of a nesting pair or colony of wild, or passenger, pig- 

 eons, anywhere in North America; when properly confirmed 

 and if found by confirming party with parent birds and young 

 UNDISTURBED: 



Colonel Anthony R. Kuser will pay on award of $300. 



John Lewis Childs will pay an award of $700. 



This means that the first nesting discovered, if found un- 

 disturbed by confirming party will draw a prize of $1,000.00 

 This amount may be increased by local awards. 



For First Nesting Discovered in the Following States: 

 John Burroughs, New York $100. 



A. B. F. Kinney, Massachusetts 100. 



Anonymous, Massachusetts, for 2d find 100. 



Allan B. Miller, for ist nesting found in Worcester Co., 



Mass. 20. 



Edward Avis, Connecticut 100. 



H. S. Hathaway, Rhode Island 100. 



Worthington Society, New Jersey 100. 



John Dryden Kuser, for 2d nesting found in New Jersey 100. 

 Henry W. Shoemaker, Penns. (adds $25, if nest is protect 



ed) 125. 



W. B. Mershon, Michigan 100. 



R. W. Mathews, Minnesota 100. 



Professor C. O. Whitman, and Ruthven Deane, Illinois 100. 

 John B. Thayer, to be assigned April 15 500 



John Lewis Childs, to be divided to finds after first 500. 



For Expenses of Investigation: 

 C. F. Hodge, for office and traveling, $100.; John E. Thayer, 

 for confirming of reports, $100.; National Association of Audu- 

 bon Societies (Wm. Dutcher) $100.; George Bird Grinnell, for 

 minor expenses, $25.; John H. Sage, $20.; C. K. and Chester 

 A. Reed, for leaflet and colored plate, $400. 



Total to date $3,800.00 



The purpose of the above ofifers is to secure an intelligent 

 search of the American continent for breeding pigeons in the 

 hope that, if found, the species may be saved from extermina- 

 tion. 



None of the money has been paid in and none will be called 



