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Title: The passenger pigeon in Pennsylvania, its remarkable history, habits and extinction, with interesting side lights on the folk and forest lore of the Alleghenian region of the old Keystone state
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: French, John C., 1858-
Subjects: Pigeons
Publisher: Altoona, Pa., Altoona tribune company
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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in much shorter time than byautomobile or motorcycle. THE PASSENGER PIGEON IN PENNSYLVANIA 251 The longest official distance flown by a homing pig-eon was a flight from Denver, Colorado, to Springfield,Mass., 1,689 miles. A little more than twenty-threedays were required for this feat, the bird flying onlyby day, gleaning its food from fields and poultry yardsas it came. The fastest time for 1,000 miles is one day andeleven hours, a truly remarkable performance. Thisbird, rejoicing in the name of Buhet, still lives inFort Wayne, Indiana. It is a satisfaction to know thatboth these worlds champions were produced in Amer-ica, giving assurance that the heritage of the nowscattered lofts of Belgium has not been neglected inthis country. Grandchildren of both these famousbirds are included in the flock recently installed inthe New York Zoological Park. Others of almostequally illustrious descent complete the new exhibit,which is proving of great interest to our visitors.—Literary Digest.
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CHAPTER XXXIV. STRAY PASSENGER PIGEONS. Reported by a Rochester Observer Familiar Withthe Birds. From New York Sun, January, 1919. To the Editor of the Sun: Sir :—I have seen Passenger Pigeons more or lessfrequently for the last fifteen years in the vicinity ofRochester. I am familiar with the Passenger Pigeon;in the town where as a boy I used to spend my sum-mers, Winona, Minn-, there was a shooting club thatused to shoot pigeons from traps and the pigeons use^were wild pigeons. The shooting stand was in front of a small grandstand on the local race track, and the entire spaceunderneath the stand was divided into two places bylaths and was filled with wild pigeons, which weretrapped. We boys with our guns used to post our-selves around the outskirts of the race track, and anypigeon that escaped the trap-shooters was pretty sureto get his. I shot them as a boy as they were roosting on tele-graph wires in the street that ran by my uncles resi-dence and had many of them as pets and tr

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