THE PASSENGER PIGEON IN ONTARIO by Mitchell, Margaret H. (Knox Howell) - 1935

Toronto: The University of Toronto Press, 1935. 181 pp. Oversized softcover. Light edge and corner wear with some minor creasing on the spine; no interior markings. Margaret Howell Mitchell was Canada's first internationally recognised ornithologist. Colour frontis of a Passenger Pigeon by William Pope; illustrated with black and white maps, drawings and diagrams. Subtitled Contribution No. 7 of the Royal Ontario Museum of Zoology, and published under the Reuben Wells Leonard Bequest, the Contents are: Introduction; Acknowledgments; Relationship of Pigeons; Range; Palaeontological Evidence of Origin; Early References: Eastern America, Indian Legends, In Ontario; Distribution in Canada - with Reference to Ontario; Nesting Colonies; Nesting Habits; Occurrence; Discussion of Ontario Distribution; Place Names; Migration Flights; Arrival and Departure; Daily Flights; Food; Economic Status; Sport: Trap Shooting; Methods of Taking Pigeons: Bows and Arrows, Shooting, Netting, Trapping, Other Methods; Variation in Numbers; Decrease and Extermination; Causes Leading to Extermination: Probable Immediate Cause, Clearing the Land, Disease, Man's Destruction of the Species, Market Hunters; Legislation; Life History; Specimens in Ontario Collection; Literature Cited; Appendix: Extract from the diary - written between 1816 and 1841 but unpublished - of Charles Fothergill, M.P.; Extracts from the diary of William Pope; Sketches of Upper Canada by W. B. Wells - 1837; A Reminiscence of the Last Great Flight by Percy R. Lowe; Reminiscences of a Canadian Pioneer for the Last Fifty Years by Samuel Thompson; The Passenger Pigeon by C. A. Fleming; An Account of Passenger Pigeons by John Townson; Royal Ontario Museum of Zoology - Wild or Passenger Pigeon in Ontario; and an index.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. Book.