Newspaper results for "passenger pigeon" OR "passenger pigeons"
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Daily National Intelligencer — 1835-05-22, page 2
… condemns as incorrect. He assails with great severity Audubon’s account of the passenger pigeon. Mr. A. as serts that he has seen “many trees two feet in diame ter” broken off …
Daily National Intelligencer — 1835-06-26, page 2
… condemns as incorrect. He assails with great severity Audubon’s account of the passenger pigeon. Mr. Au dubon asserts ‘that he has ssen many trees two feet in diameter broken …
… Editorsays, He [Waterion] assails with great severity Audubon’s account of the Passenger-Pigeon. Mr. Audubon asserts that ‘he has seen many trees two feet in diameter, broken …
New National Era — 1873-10-30, page 2
… .l! Fi.shione.1 Hat." i There are also interesting desct ipti .1- ? ! ; zebra*, passenger-pigeons, the? uri- !?-? mil ibitants of the Parallonc Islands, au.l tin- Pan. f Indians …
Evening Star — 1880-10-16, page 7
… swailo * is slower-'.*" miles per hour being about the limLs of Its powers; but the passenger pigeon of the i nlted states can ackwinpiish a journey of l.<xx? miles between sunrise …
The National Tribune — 1888-05-24, page 7
… as I believe it will the most of the readers of this, the common wild pigeon " passenger pigeon "that was so plentiful only so few years ago that I Mtpftesed they still existed …
Evening Star — 1890-11-15, page 12
The Library of Congress text does not contain the match. It was found in American Stories (Dell et al. 2023), a second machine reading of the scans. OCR credits.
These excerpts come from American Stories OCR.
… easy enough to knock over half a but then they make such pretty mark for a gun. | PASSENGER PIGEONS. while ago the so-called passenger pigeon" | flew by millions in the Ohio valley as far east as Massachusetts. Now but very …
Evening Star — 1892-11-12, page 8
The Library of Congress text does not contain the match. It was found in American Stories (Dell et al. 2023), a second machine reading of the scans. OCR credits.
These excerpts come from American Stories OCR.
… NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF PRAIRIE oHrckExsQUEER WAYS OF THE oREAr HORNED OWLS sEsTISo oP PASSENGER PIGEONS.
Evening Star — 1897-12-03, page 10
… from Nebraska stated that a lloek of from seventy-five to one hundred wild, or passenger, pigeons had been seen in that state. This will be In teresting news to those who remember …
Evening Star — 1899-03-18, page 16
… to be spread broadcast throughout the country, to the efTect that the ordinary passenger pigeon of birdology was, for some Inexplicable reason or oth?rr dying out so rapidly that …
… desired a number of specimens of the same for stuffing and mounting pur poses. Now. passenger pigeons are not so numerous as English sparrows, of course, but, all the sam?. there are …
… date, together with "please remit" bills through the mails for the same, but the passenger pigeons are said to be slill a-comlng. They are s?nt back, express charges C. O. !>., in …
The Evening Times — 1899-11-04, page 2
The Library of Congress text does not contain the match. It was found in American Stories (Dell et al. 2023), a second machine reading of the scans. OCR credits.
These excerpts come from American Stories OCR.
… - ! ton of the turkey buzzard is a mena-e to ! the health of the country. ! The passenger pigeon, millions OF which were to be seen fifteen years ago. is now almost gone. The Carolina …
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