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 CHAPTER IX

The Pigeon Butcher's Defense

By E. T. Martin, from the "American Field," Chicago,

January 25, 1879.

LITTLE after the middle of March a body of birds began nesting some twelve miles north of Petoskey, near Pickerel Lake. About April 8 another and larger body "set in" along Maple and Indian Rivers, and Burt Lake, and near Cross Village, there being in all some seven or eight distinct nestings,