462 GAME BIRDS, WILD-FOWL AND SHORE BIRDS. 



1896. — • Missouri, Attic, pair killed from flock of fifty by Chas. H. Holden, 

 Jr., December 17; in collection of Ruthven Deane (Auk, 1897, p. 

 317). 



1897. — Iowa, Lee County, September 7, William G. Praeger shot a lone 

 immature male (R. M. Anderson, Birds of Iowa, 1907, p. 239). 



1898. — - Michigan, Chestnut Ridge, Wayne County, immature bird, mounted 

 by C. Campion, Detroit, September li (J. H. Fleming, Auk, 1903, p. 

 66). Probably the same reported by Mr. Ernest Thompson Seton as 

 taken by J. G. Rosser, September 13 (Auk, 1908, p. 452). 



1898. — Kentucky, Owensboro, immature male, now in the Smithsonian 

 Institution, July 27 (J. H. Fleming, Auk, 1908, p. 237). 



1900. — ■ Ohio, Sargents, March 24 (Dawson and Jones, Birds of Ohio, Vol. 

 II., p. 427); specimen shot by a boy and mounted by a Mrs. Barnes. 



1900. — Wisconsin, Babcock, September, specimen not preserved, killed by 

 Neal Brown while hunting with Emerson Hough (W. B. Mershon, 

 The Passenger Pigeon, p. 154). The accuracy of this record has been 

 questioned. 



1902. — Arkansas, F. H. Miller of St. Louis received twelve dozen from 

 Rogers, Ark. (Otto Widmann). 



1904. — Maine, one killed at Bar Harbor, mounted by J. Bert Baxter of 

 Bangor (Harry Merrill). Recorded by Glover M. Allen in his List of 

 the Aves, 1909, Fauna of N. E., II., Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. 



1906. — Missouri, Black River, F. H. Miller of St. Louis received one bird 

 at his market in St. Louis, shipped from Black River. (It will be noted 

 that the last previous record for Missouri was in 1896.) 



1907. — Province of Quebec, one bird taken by Mr. Pacificque Couture of 

 St. Vincent, P. Q., September 23, 1907. The bird was mounted by Mr. 

 A. Learo, taxidermist of Montreal, and identified by him. (I have 

 been unable to find Mr. Couture and get further particulars, as he is 

 no longer at St. Vincent. This record may not be authentic.) 



The records from 1898 to 1907 appear to be authentic, but 

 in the few cases where the specimens were preserved I have 

 been unable to locate them. We have no record since 1898 

 that can be substantiated by a specimen preserved in any 

 museum. 



It is only just to state that many Passenger Pigeons 

 probably were seen at later dates than some of those given. 

 Where flocks or single birds were watched by competent 

 observers for hours through a glass, as they were in more than 

 one instance, there can be no question of their identity; but 

 the taking of the specimen is the only tangible proof that 

 satisfies the ornithologist in such a case as this, and for that 



