CONTENTS 



CHAPTER PAGE 



Introduction ....... ix 



I My Boyhood Among the Pigeons . . . i 



II The Passenger Pigeon 9 



From " American Ornithology, " by Alexander IVilson 



III The Passenger Pigeon 25 



From " Ornithological Biography, " by John James Audubon 



IV As James Fenimore Cooper Saw It . . -41 



V The Wild Pigeon of North America • . . 48 

 By Chief Pokagon, in " The Chautauquan " 



VI The Passenger Pigeon 60 



From " Life Histories of North American Birds," hy 

 Charles Bendire 



VII Netting the Pigeons 74 



By William Brewster, in "The Auk " 



VIII Efforts to Check the Slaughter ... 77 

 By Prof. H. B. Roney 



IX The Pigeon Butcher's Defense . . .93 



By E. T. Martin, in "American Field" 



X Notes of a Vanished Industry .... 105 



XI Recollections of "Old Timers" . . . 119 



XII The Last of the Pigeons 141 



XIII What Became of the Wild Pigeon? . . 163 



By Sullivan Cook, in "Forest and Stream" 



