Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1919 — Pigeons May Come Back. [ARTICLE]

Pigeons May Come Back.

When they hear the current report that a member of the Connecticut state- game'commission has seen sevrrot - passenger pfge-erts. persons who km w the story of bird life in North Ameii<u are almost as surprised as if he Lad said he had seen specimens of the great auk. The passenger pigeon has be-m considered equally PYtinet Less.than a century ago It wa- th- t plentiful game bird on the eontjnent. and. flocks of passenger p[g,'..t.s artlandscape like a cloqjl passing beneath the sum This seems likely enough, v.!. a •nd recalls Audulwn's estimate of w dl over n billion .pigeons in a migrating fleck. Their reappearance w< uid he a true return of the native, and would be widely welcomed.