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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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ent case. There is still ground for belief thatthey exist, though the most careful investigation canar most leave the case open, as in the instances of theflocks seen by Mr. Snook in eastern Brush Valley, acouple of years ago. With no positive proof againstwe can content ourselves with a goodly portion ofhope, and a faith that Bctopisfcs Migratorius, or assome of the netters in INIichigan called them Travel-ling Pigeons must return from their long journey.They were in such great numbers when they went 186 THE PASSENGER PIG-EON IN PENNSYLVANIA away the last time, some must be left. If they comeback they will find themselves safeguarded by pro-tective laws, a more enlightened public sentiment, anda thoroughly aroused interest in their lifes history.By the methods of selection used by fanciers in evolv-ing new^ varieties of domestic pigeons typical **wildpigeons might be produced, to the benefit of theworld, and the infinite joy of the aviarist. Wliat birdlover will try tliis experiment?
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CHAPTER XX\JI1. LAST SURVIVOR OF WILD PIGEONS DEAD Msu-tha, Captive in Cincinnati Zoo, Survived Loss ofMate Just Four Years—Lived to Be 29 Years Old New York, September 13, 1914. NEWS of the death in Cincinnati of Martha, thelast wild pigeon in the world, according to allornithological records, was conveyed yesterday to T.Gilbert Pearson, general executive officer of theNational Audubon Societies, in a telegram fromEugene Swope, the Ohio agent of the Societies at Cin-cinnati. The death of Martha, according to Mr.Pearson, is a calamity of as great importance in theeyes of naturahsts as the death of a kaiser to Germansthroughout the world. Martha had been in poor health for several years inher cage at the Zoological Garden in Cincinnati. Manyefforts had been made to find a mate for her, or todiscover some other specimen of the wild pigeon, butthey were without avail. According to all ornitho-logical data available, Martha was the last of her tribein the world. (She died at 2 p. m., Au

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