Auk, Sil, Oct. , 1895, p- 3 8?, 
The Passenger Pigeon in the Upper Mississippi Valley. — While col- 
lecting with Mr. Wallace Craig, Sept. 3, 1891, I shot a male Wild Pigeon 
(■ Ectopistes migratorius ) in an oak grove in Chicago, near 75th Street, 
between Stony Island Avenue and Lake Michigan. It was feeding and 
flew up at our approach, alighting perhaps ten feet from the ground, 
where I shot it. It was not at all wild, and was a bird of the year. We 
saw two others in the same grove, but did not secure them. 
April 8, 1894, Mr. Edw. J. Gekler saw a flock of about fifteen Wild 
Pigeons flying while in a woods near Liverpool, Indiana. 
Mr. Kaempher, a taxidermist of this city, had a fine male Passenger 
Pigeon mounted on one of his shelves which was brought in on March 
14, 1894. The gentleman who brought it said he shot it near Liverpool, 
Indiana, and saw quite a number of them at the time. 
Mr. W. C. Stryker, of Berrien County, Mich., now a student in the 
Chicago College of Dental Surgery, told me that on May 27, 1894, he 
found a flock of perhaps twenty Wild Pigeons in a clover field on his 
farm near some burr oaks into which they flew when he frightened them. 
They remained on his place for some time and were not molested. His 
farm is but three or four miles from the Indiana line. He is very familiar 
with the Passenger Pigeon, having shot many several years ago when 
they were abundant. — James O. Dunn, Chicago, III. 
Additional Records of the Passenger Pigeon' ( Ectoftistes migratorius ) 
in Wisconsin and Illinois.— I am indebted to my friend, Mr. John L. 
Stockton, of Highland Park, 111 ., for information regardingthe occurrence 
of this Pigeon in Wisconsin. While trout fishing on the Little Oconto 
River in the Reservation of the Menominee Indians Mr. Stockton saw, 
early in June, 1895, a flock of some ten Pigeons for several consecutive 
days near his camp. They were first seen while alighting near the bank 
of the river, where they had evidently come to drink. I am very glad to 
say that they were not molested. 
Mr. John F. Ferry of Lake Forest, 111 ., has kjndly notified me of the 
capture of a young female which was killed in that town on August 7, 1895. 
The bird was brought to him by a boy who had shot it with a rifle ball, 
and although in a mutilated condition he preserved it for his collection. 
I have recently received a letter from Dr. H. V. Ogden, Milwaukee, 
Wis., informing me of the capture of a young female Pigeon which was 
shot by Dr. Ernest Copeland on the 1st of October, 1895. These gentle- 
men were camping at the time in the northeast corner of Delta County, 
Mich. (Northern Peninsula), in the large hardwood forest that runs 
through that part of the State. They saw no other of the species. — 
Ruthven Deane, Chicago, III. 
Auk, XIV, July, 1897, vr 3 ' 6 ' 7 
Additional Records of the Passenger Pigeon ( Ectopistes migratorius'). 
— Most of the notes on the Passenger Pigeon recorded in the past year 
have referred to single birds or pairs. It is with much pleasure that I can 
now call attention to a flock of some fifty, observed in southern 
Missouri. I am not only greatly indebted to Mr. Chas. U. Holden, Jr., 
for this interesting information, but for the present of a beautiful pair 
which he sent me in the flesh, he having shot them as they flew rapidly 
overhead. Mr. Holden was, at the time, hunting Quail in Altie, Oregon 
Co., Missouri. The residents of this hamlet had not seen any Pigeons 
there before in some years. 
Simon Pokagon, Chief of the remaining Pottawattamie tribe, and prob- 
ably the best posted man on the Wild Pigeon in Michigan, writes me 
under date of Oct. 16, 1896 : “I am creditably informed that there was a 
small nesting of Pigeons last spring not far from the headwaters of the 
Au Sable River in Michigan. ” Mr. Chase S- Osborn, State Game and 
Fish Warden of Michigan, under date, Sault Ste. Marie, March 2, 1897, 
writes : “ Passenger Pigeons are now very rare indeed in Michigan, but some 
have been seen in the eastern parts of Chippewa County, in the Upper 
Peninsula, every year. As many as a dozen or more were seen in this 
section in one flock last year, and I have reason to believe that they breed 
here in a small way. One came into this city last summer and attracted 
a great deal of attention by flying and circling through the air with the 
tame Pigeons. I have a bill in the legislature of Michigan closing the 
season for killing Wild Pigeons for ten years.” — Ruthven Deane, 
Chicago , III. 
