April 19, 1913 
FOREST AND STREAM 
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Taxidermiets. 
J. KANNOFSKY, 
PRACTICAL GLASS BLOWER 
and manufacturer of artificial eyes for birds, animals and manu¬ 
facturing purposes a specialty. Send for prices. All kinds of 
heads and skulls for furriers and taxidermists. 369 Canal 
Street. New York. 
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enough white pine, enough trout, enough gray¬ 
ling, enough pigeons. Alas! why not? 
MR. SC0UG.\LL’S letter. 
“The wild pigeon is something that only 
men past middle age can write about from ex¬ 
perience. 
“In 1875 I was in Oceana county in Michi¬ 
gan at the towm of Shelby. There was a large 
nesting of wild pigeons there, and on one large 
hemlock tree a man named Parrish and myself 
counted 317 pigeons’ nests. The tree was about 
forty rods from Parrish’s house. 
“I was at this nesting about a month. From 
about the middle of March until after the middle 
of April we shipped one hundred barrels of 
birds a day. 
“In early days folks calculated on a pigeon 
crop, as much as any crop, every two years. 
Although the pigeons went over on their migra¬ 
tions every year, they only stopped every other 
year on account of the mast, or shack, as we 
used to call it, and their nesting in the locality 
above referred to was every other year pretty 
sure, but I never knew them to nest tw’ice in 
the same place, and when the country got more 
settled, they went further north. 
“In 1877 there was quite a lot of pigeons 
which stopped at Shelby on their reconnoitering 
trip, and we thought they would stay. But the 
advance squad left in a few days, and soon after 
the main body of the flight came in flocks longer 
than the eye could reach and passed over Shelby 
about 8 A. M. So ten of us sports clubbed to¬ 
gether and wired north to see if the flight had 
settled down anywhere. About 4 o’clock p. m. 
we got word that they had stopped at or above 
Petoskey, Mich. This was the 23d of February, 
1877. 
“That spring my partner and I caught 2.000 
dozen pigeons. We caught 108 dozen the first 
day and they netted us $108. The first two 
weeks we caught 1,000 dozen. I was at this 
nesting from Feb. 23 until May 17. I surely 
have seen some pigeons and nests. I have seen 
two eggs in a nest, but I never saw two young 
birds or squabs in one nest. I have seen one 
squab and on« bad egg in a nest when the 
squabs were small, but as they grew, soon got 
rid of the egg. The nests were only a few 
sticks and looked as if it was a tight match to 
hold even one bird. 
“This time I was at Petoskey in 1877 which 
was the last year that the birds were netted. In 
1880 they nested in the mountains in Southern 
Missouri. In 1882 there was a nesting in the 
Panhandle of Texas, twenty miles wide and 
forty miles long, the largest nesting ever known, 
but so far from shipping points that the pigeons 
were not trapped at either place, as the birds 
taken would have to be hauled seventy-five miles 
by team, so it would not pay. That is the last 
I ever saw or heard of the wild pigeons, though 
I saw a newspaper account of there being great 
numbers of them washed ashore on the Russian 
coast, 
“In 1886, when I lived in Sioux City, I re¬ 
ported the migration of birds for the Smith¬ 
sonian Institute, and while I was always a great 
observer of bird and animal life, and nature in 
general, others might have seen things different. 
The pigeon netters are all old men now. I was 
one of the youngest netters in the business at 
the time 1 have written about, and am past 
seventy now.” 
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YARDLEY, PA. 
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The Story of the Indian 
By George Bird Grinnell, author of “Pawnee Hero 
Stories,” “Blackfoot Lodge Tales,” etc. 12mo. 
Cloth. Price, $1.50. 
Contents: His Home. Recreations. A Marriage. 
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W'orld of the Dead. Pawnee Religion. The Old Faith 
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