The Passenger Pigeon

The Passenger Pigeon

William Brewster, Ornithologist (1851-1919)


This ebook presents «The Passenger Pigeon», from William Brewster. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected.


Table of Contents

- About This Book

- Introduction

- My Boyhood Among The Pigeons

- The Passenger Pigeon

- The Passenger Pigeon

- As James Fenimore Cooper Saw It

- The Wild Pigeon Of North America

- The Passenger Pigeon

- Netting The Pigeons

- Efforts To Check The Slaughter

- The Pigeon Butcher's Defense

- Notes On A Vanished Industry

- Recollections Of Old Timers

- The Last Of The Pigeons

- What Became Of The Wild Pigeon

- A Novel Theory Of Extinction

- News From John Burroughs

- The Pigeon In Manitoba

- The Passenger Pigeon In Confinement

- Nesting Habits Of The Passenger Pigeon

- Miscellaneous Notes