Box Elder News Journal | 1911-11-16 | Page 6 | Passenger Pigeons Exterminated

passenger pigeons exterminated measures were talen laan to ascertain 1 whether the passenger pigeon had been completely exterminated aci cording to a government report under tile the stimulus of inwards offered aggregating altogether several thousand dollars man many were received of nesting passenger pi pigeons gerns the icil however proved incorrect on 01 investigation and it is practically that of the vast hordes of vilil ild pigeons that formerly inhabited the eastern united states there is is iu i cv v but one survivor a female bild iid eighteen years old in captivity in like i he ical il garden of cincinnati