Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation

Hornaday, William T. (William Temple) · 1937

of a select committee of the Senate of Ohio, in 1857, on a bill proposed to protect the passenger pigeon. "The passenger pigeon needs no protection. Wonderfully prolific, having the vast forests of the North as its breeding grounds, traveling hundreds of miles in search of food, it is here to-day and elsewhere to-morrow, and no ordinary destruction can lessen them, or be missed from the myriads that are yearly produced."…

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