Lake Umbagog journals, 1871-1916 (inclusive)
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L.Umbagog. 1890. Ectopistes migratoria Mr. Ferrin of Errol tells me that he saw a single Wild Pigeon the past summer in Errol the only one that he has heard of for the past five or six years. Twenty years ago they used to be abundant and forty years ago they had to be kept out of the buckwheat fields by boys who watched the grain from daylight until dark. In those old times he has seen flocks a mile or two in length. Ectopistes migratorius. 1890, Lake Umbagog. September 21. Lakeside. No one has seen any Wild Pigeons this year. 51