152 The Passenger Pigeon 



Upon inquiry here among old residents, I am told 

 that there was quite a large roost on a beech ridge 

 about forty miles west of here, which would be at a 

 point north of the present station of Eckerman. I have 

 been unable to learn just when this roosting place was 

 discontinued, but as near as I can make out from com- 

 paring statements and records, it must have been in '78, 

 '79, or '80. 



I have heard of a large roosting place in northern 

 Wisconsin which was used as late as 1874 by vast num- 

 bers of birds. It was located to the south and a little 

 west of Lac Vieux Desert. At the head of the Pike 

 River in Wisconsin, a point probably sixty-five miles 

 south of here, and west into that State, the pigeons 

 were seen in large numbers until 1872. As I under- 

 stand it, in the early days they were very likely to fre- 

 quent the same section year after year when not too 

 much disturbed. 



Mr. Newell A. Eddy of Bay City, Mich., under date 

 of Aug. 7, 1905, wrote me as follows: 



I find that I have but few notes regarding this 

 species. On Sept. 13, 1880, I took a single bird near 

 the city of Bangor, Maine. The sex was not deter- 

 mined. This was an unusual capture for the place and 

 the time. A few years previous to that time, on a 

 canoeing trip to the headwaters of the Penobscot River, 

 I fell in with a small flock of a dozen or more in an old 



