Ectopistes migratorius, ' Mimiis polyglottbs, and Sturnella magna 
neglecta in Bristol Co., Mass. — In company with a friend and my brother 
on August 23, 1889, I was shooting on the mud flats around the reservoir 
at Norton, Mass. In making a detour of a small inlet, I flushed a Pas- 
senger Pigeon from among the low blueberry and bayberry bushes 
among which I was tramping. The bird alighted in a small white birch 
near at hand, seeming very unsuspicious, and I shot it. On dissection 
it proved to be a ? young-of-year and was in very good plumage. This 
is the last record I have of this species. The bird is now mounted and 
in my collection.^" ^ Sc _ *«««*' , 
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September 23, 1878. Two Passenger Pigeons (Ectopistes migratorius), 
in immature plumage, on the outskirts of Siasconset Village. 
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Thoreau’s Notes on the Passenger Pigeon.— In connection with Mr. 
A. H. Wright’s compilation of ‘ Some Early Records of the Passenger Pigeon,’ 
printed in ‘The Auk’ for October, 1910, Thoreau’s records of this spe- 
cies as they appear in his ‘Notes on New England Birds (Boston, 1910) 
may be of interest, though covering a more recent period. These consist 
of thirty-eight entries in his Journal, occupying ten pages of the book and 
extending from 1845 through 1860. They probably give a pretty good 
notion of the abundance of the bird in the neighborhood of Concord, Mass., 
during that period. Apparently the Pigeons did not breed there very 
extensively at that time, though under date of Nov. 8, 1859, it is stated 
that “Coombs [one of the Concord pigeon-catchers] says that quite a little 
flock of pigeons bred here last summer.” They were found from March 
through September, but most abundantly by far in the latter month. 
There were several stands in the neighborhood, and catching began about 
the middle of August. The notes contain nothing to indicate any marked 
diminution in their numbers between 1845 and 1860, and the last entry 
on Sept. 4 of the latter year — records ‘flocks of pigeons’ seen on the 2d 
and 3d. — Francis H. Allen, West Roxbury, Mass. 
■ C. migratorius was not recognized as a distinct species by Linnteus till 1766. 
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