Show u THE PASSENGER A writer in the Cincinati Enquirer notes that the pigeon known as the no long er exists in any greater number than the that rewards ag are offered for undisturbed nests of this and that John the venerable and distinguished personally offers for the first nest found in the state of New There are hopes that a few pairs of beautiful bird of graceful movement and tremendous speed in flight may be obtained from which to breed a colony that will revive the There has been a statement recently that a flock of twenty-five of these birds had been seen in the vicinity of Upon that hint Anthony R Kuser has made a separate offer of for a single pair of nesting passenger Many people in the Ohio Valley States say they can recall the flights of wild pigeons often witnessed there up to thirty years Frequently the wild pigeon would obscure the sun like great black for the millions of their masses could not be even approximately Sometimes their columns were known to be five miles in length by one or two in as they flew to their great in Ken- w tucky or New land and other states the same remarkable Those roosts were scenes slaughter without tree of the forest for miles length and miles in width hold its hundreds or thousands roosting for the Great branches would be off trees by their Into these woods the from the village and would penetrate by the slaughtering the birds with and even clubbing them off ti lower netting th taking them by hand Jj their dazed and inH morning loading them upon ricks and all vehicles to convey them to or the home the hundreds of Those tig could not be disposed of most trifling even as ten cents to the to the hogs or fire This ruthless beautiful bird life had no in loss to the birds did not feed upon nor in demand for food for there were many more of them destroyed ever reached the human It was just simply Wad One of the last great observed and written fl ornithologists of late dT that up near Grand 5 in But in the same covered the forests miles in length by three or in The noise of could be heard fouM five miles from their One of the great this army of bird life filled air a width of over a mile length of five Their In the trees was like the of the wood Roosts jg been known forty miles in This condition obtained oft thirty or forty years day offers are made of production of a single these beautiful st. flight has been by of their to reach a hung miles to the |