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Updated: April 30, 2025
Flights of locusts are often seen passing through the air, like vast clouds, obscuring the sky. The passenger-pigeon of America appears in almost equal numbers. The accounts of their vast nights would be incredible, were they not thoroughly well authenticated.
The first thief was an old jay, who flew towards the tree with his head turned to one side to see whether any one was overtaking him. But scarcely had he alighted when he uttered a scream of horror that was sickening to hear, and dropped on the grass beneath, after which he took himself off with a silence and speed that would have done credit to a passenger-pigeon.
THE passenger-pigeon* visits the Canadas in the early spring-months, and during August, in immense flocks, bringing with them an agreeable change in the diet of the settler. It is slender in form, having a very long-forked tail. Its plumage is a bluish-grey, and it has a lovely pink breast.
Sometimes the gangs will be seen straying southward, at other times to the north, east, or west. The search of food or water seems partially to regulate these movements, as with the passenger-pigeon, and some other migratory creatures. At such times the buffaloes move forward in an impetuous march which nothing seems to interrupt.
Some said they resembled the howling of dogs, while others compared them to the screaming of angry cats. But there was one that differed from all the rest. This was probable enough, considering the nature of the place. The cougar is well-known to frequent the great roosts of the passenger-pigeon, and is fond of the flesh of these birds.
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