Nesting of the Passenger Pigeon ( Ectopistes migratorius ) in New 
York. — On May 17-19, 1878 I was camped on the west bank of Moose 
River, Herkimer County, N. Y., near the confluence of the South Branch. 
The heavy spruce and hemlock had been recently cut out but the hard- 
woods and much of the smaller growth of conifers remained. 
We occupied an abandoned woodchoppers’ camp, a quarter mile back 
from the river and probably two miles from the old road leading from 
Moose River Tannery to Old Forge. On the 17th several Wild Pigeons 
were seen frequenting a clump of spruces, averaging perhaps 60 feet high. 
As now recalled there were probably eight or ten birds seen and in passing 
from our camp to the river we saw them several times in the same vicinity 
and finally a few nests were noticed in these spruces. If I remember 
correctly there were two nests in one tree and two others seen in different 
trees. On the 17th we thought none of them contained eggs although we 
did not climb to examine. On the 18th a single egg was taken, perfectly 
fresh, and we thought it had been deposited that morning, the bird being 
seen to leave the nest. The nest was on a horizontal limb of the spruce 
about 30 feet from the ground and 8 to 10 feet out from main trunk, a 
frail loosely constructed collection of small twigs saddled on the limb and 
kept together by the small branches of the growing tree. 
While this is rather ancient history it may be of interest now that the 
species appears to be extinct and details of its nesting are not abundant. 
— C. J. Pennock, Kennelt Square, Pa. , 
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