PASSENGER PIGEON. — J&clapistes myratorius . 
Among the most extraordinary of birds, the Passenger Pigeon may take 
very high rank, not on account of its size or beauty, but on account ct the 
extraordinary multitudes in which it sometimes migrates from one place to 
another. So vast are the flocks in which these birds assemble, that their numbers 
can barely be estimated by measurement. Wilson describes one flock of 
Passenger Pigeons to have been one mile in breadth, and two hundred and fifty 
miles long. He also calculates that this single flock would devour in cne day 
seventeen million bushels of grain. 
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